Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday slammed Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for going on a foreign trip, ignoring the plight of families who lost their kins in the Amritsar train tragedy on October 19.

Badal, a former Chief Minister of the state, termed the accident on Dussehra day "a man-made tragedy of an unprecedented magnitude", and took to task the Congress government for its "shocking and heartless non-seriousness" in responding to the terrible tragedy in which about 60 people lost their lives.