Thousands died in stampede at Kumbh: Mallikarjun Kharge sparks row

“What connection are you sending? I entreaty to your bully sense,” helium told Kharge.

Participating successful a statement connected the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, Kharge paid homage to “thousands of radical who person died successful Maha Kumbh”. When the Treasury broadside objected, helium said, “If this is wrong, you tell… this is my guess. If this is not existent you archer the truth.”

Union Minister Piyush Goyal called Kharge’s remarks connected the deaths, and different connected farmers’ suicide, “baseless, mendacious and misleading… ”

“When Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister, 800 radical died successful a stampede connected Mauni Amavasya successful 1954. In 1986, during the tenure of Rajiv Gandhi, 200 radical died during the Kumbh Mela. Then their Chief Minister Veer Bahadur Singh went to Kumbh with different main ministers and 200 radical died owed to VIP movement. They (Congress) should reply that,” said Goyal.

He added that 42 radical died successful Prayagraj successful 2013 “when 8 crore people” visited the area.

Dhankhar said, “Mallikarjun Kharge, 1 of the senior-most governmental leaders successful the country, … made an reflection with respect to an incidental that took spot erstwhile we were having Maha Kumbh aft a play of 144 years. Everyone who has content successful the nation, its civilisational ethos would beryllium ammunition shocked erstwhile the Leader of the Opposition said thousands person been killed — an outlandish, outrageous, unacceptable…”

He added: “We cannot person a connection made successful this House to make sensation, to wounded feelings, to make chaos successful the country… This is not a spot for freefall of information…. I, therefore, telephone upon the Leader of Opposition to substantiate the premise of his connection that successful that mishap thousands had mislaid their lives.”

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said: “Can Leader of Opposition substantiate by putting connected grounds oregon connected what ground helium has made these claims — lakhs of farmers person died. Same arsenic helium misled by claiming that thousands of radical person died successful Kumbh… We expect the Leader of Opposition to substantiate this peculiar statement.”