‘Planning and care must be maximal’: West Bengal CM expresses grief over Maha Kumbh stampede

Multiple radical were feared dormant aft a “stampede-like” concern broke retired astatine the sangam successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela successful Prayagraj, quality bureau PTI reported. However, authorities are yet to officially corroborate the fig of injuries and deaths.

The injured were rushed to the cardinal infirmary established successful the mela area.

Banerjee further wrote, “My learning from our Gangasagar Mela is that readying and attraction indispensable beryllium maximal successful matters relating to pilgrims’ lives successful immense assemblies of people. Prayers for the departed souls.”

In response, BJP person and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said, “An mishap is ever an accident. Don’t bash authorities connected this. The authorities volition instrumentality indispensable enactment to prevention people.”

On the different hand, TMC person Kunal Ghosh said, “An mishap is ever an mishap but this mishap could person been avoided if the medication was alert and took steps astatine the archetypal stage. We talked to galore pilgrims who were determination during the incident. They are besides intelligibly saying it is simply a implicit nonaccomplishment of the (Uttar Pradesh CM) Yogi Adityanath administration.”

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