Patna, July 15: Large-scale damage to railway tracks leading to derailment of at least four trains and uprooting of signals by the activists of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) had its echo in the Bihar Assembly today with the members expressing serious concern over the spurt in activities of naxalite organisations. Senior BJP member Chandra Mohan Roy, raising the issue during zero hour drew the government's attention to the growing nexus between naxalites of Bihar and Maoist rebels of Nepal.

MCC activists blew up about 90 metres of tracks and broke about one metre of railway line on Bhaironganj-Kharpokhr Section of the Samastipur Division of the East Central Railway last night. Leader of the opposition Sushil Kumar Modi alleged that the government had failed to initiate action against the ultras whose writ ran large in rural Bihar.

Four trains -- Muzaffarpur-Gorakhpur Express, Darbhanga-Narkatiganj Express and Kurla-Darbhanga Express and the engine and two bogies of passenger train -- derailed at different places with the MCC activists causing large-scale damage to railway tracks and signals as part of their Tirhut-Mithilanchal bandh today.

Speaker Sadanand Singh asked the government to take a serious note of the MCC attacks and directed the government to initiate steps to check the naxalite menace. Bureau Report