new delhi four bjp mps from karnataka including former chief minister sadananda gowda have written a letter to congress chief mallikarjun kharge criticising him for his recent letter to prime minister narendra modi which they said was high on rhetoric and low on factsdetailing mismanagement of the railways kharges letter highlighted 10 points that urged the government to bring out the real reason behind the balasoretripletrain accident that claimed 288 livesread alsocbi meant to investigate crimes not railway accidents mallikarjun kharge to pm modi on odisha rail tragedynew delhi a day after the railways sought a cbi probe into the odisha train tragedy congress president mallikarjun kharge on monday wrote to prime minister narendra modi saying the probe agency is meant to investigate crimes not railway accidents and cannot fix accountability for technicalbalasore train crash congress seeks fir against pm railway minister for negligencenew delhi the congress on wednesday accused the bjpled centre of dereliction of duty of himalayan proportions in the balasore train tragedy and said an fir should be lodged by the cbi against railway minister ashwini vaishnaw and prime minister narendra modi for negligence at a press conferencecag report being used selectively railways to reply to parliament soon govt sourcesnew delhi in response to the cag report being cited by certain quarters related to the expense on safety by the indian railways government sources have said that this information is being selectively used top sources have said that expenditure on all projects of indian railways includinghe alleged that the empty safety claims of railway ministerashwini vaishnaw were now exposedthe letter by the mps stated that it does not suit a leader of your stature to write letters to the pm based on facts seen on whatsapp university but perhaps as the vicechancellor of whatsapp university you are forced to regurgitate fake news as factscentre misused railway funds congresson friday the congress cited a 2021 cag report and claimed that the centre misused funds meant for railway safety on crockery car rentals furniture laptops and foot massagers this is how funds specifically meant for railway safety were used this is the cags finding congress general secretary jairam ramesh said on twitterquoting the findings of the cag report he alleged that the modi government has been misusing rashtriya rail sanraksha kosh rrsk fundskharges allegations and bjps rebuttalkharge in his letter to the pm pointed out that the cag report titled derailment in indian railways highlighted that funding for the rrsk had been reduced by a massive 79 it was claimed during the budget presentation that about rs 20000 crore would be available annually but this was not done kharge had said and asked why were the required funds not allocated for track renewal workhowever data in the document showed that from 201718 to 202122 the railways spent more than rs 1 lakh crore on rrsk work said the letter by the bjp mps in february 2022 the government extended the validity of rrsk by another five years starting