It’s a cover-up, Yogi govt hiding actual stampede toll: Congress

Speaking to media persons successful Lucknow, Rai said, “Hundreds of radical died successful the stampede successful Kumbh owed to mismanagement connected the intervening nighttime of January 28 and 29. Thousands of radical were injured portion thousands went missing. The UP authorities is truthful insensitive that it has not yet released a close database of the missing and the dead. People are moving from doorway to doorway successful hunt of their loved ones. The Yogi (Adityanath) authorities is hiding the close figures to screen up its failure.”

The past rites of galore of the victims were not performed arsenic per their spiritual beliefs, helium added. “Some bodies were thrown into the Ganga, immoderate were picked up by bulldozers, immoderate were cremated anonymously successful electrical crematoriums portion immoderate bodies are inactive lying successful garbage heaps. This is the tallness of insensitivity,” Rai said.

Referring to the decease of sub-inspector Anjani Kumar Rai, the Congress person claimed that the officer, a nonmigratory of Ghazipur, “died portion performing his work during the stampede that day”.

“The chaos was specified that adjacent this brave policeman did not get an ambulance connected time. And the irony is that the authorities is not adjacent acceptable to judge that Anjani Kumar Rai died successful the stampede,” helium said, adding that talking to his household members revealed the “inhuman face” of the Uttar Pradesh government, and however the ambulance to transportation Anjani Rai’s assemblage was made disposable lone aft a agelong hold of 11 hours.

The Congress person besides claimed that arsenic soon arsenic his program to sojourn the location of Anjani Kumar Rai was decided, the Kumbh Mela Police wrote a station connected X, claiming that Anjani Kumar Rai was not connected work astatine a crowded place.

However, Ajay Rai claimed that nary authorities typical visited Anjani Rai’s house, “nor did they judge his martyrdom”. “After I went to his location connected February 5 to conscionable his family, the adjacent day, Ghazipur’s constabulary skipper reached Anjani Rai’s residence. The Yogi authorities is making each effort to fell its incompetence,” Ajay Rai said. Referring to the caller deportation of Indian immigrants from the US, Ajay Rai said the full satellite saw a “shameful picture”.