Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Part and alleged that the double engine government is hiding the real death toll in the stampede that erupted at Maha Kumbh mela in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on January 29.
The government said as many as 30 people were killed and 60 others were injured in the stampede but the Oppositon claimed the the number was higher.
“While the government is continuously giving budget figures, please also give the figures of those who died in Maha Kumbh. I demand an all-party meeting should be called to give clarification about the arrangements for Maha Kumbh. The responsibility of Maha Kumbh disaster management and lost and found centre should be given to the Army,” Akhilesh Yadav said while speaking in the Parliament on Tuesday.
He added, “The figures for the deaths in Maha Kumbh accident, treatment of injured, availability of medicines, doctors, food, water, transport should be presented in the Parliament. For the Maha Kum tragedy, there should be strict punitive action against those responsible and those who have hidden the truth should be punished. We ask the double-engine government, if there was no guilt, then why were the figures suppressed, hidden and erased?.”