Greater than 10 crore devotees took a holy dip on the Maha Kumbh in Sangam, however the joie de vivre was marred by a post-midnight tragedy, when hordes of individuals trampled on devotees sleeping on the bottom after breaking police barricades. Thirty individuals died and greater than 60 individuals had been injured. 36 of these injured are present process remedy in hospital.
UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who had been toiling arduous for the final a number of months to make the Maha Kumbh a grand success, appeared earlier than media along with his eyes filled with tears. Police and well being employees acted promptly, known as in ambulances and created a inexperienced hall to take these injured to the hospital.
The tragedy is certainly saddening. Yogi was within the management room post-midnight, taking updates as contours of the tragedy unfolded. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Yogi 4 instances over the cellphone and took updates. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw organized particular trains for ferrying the devotees who had taken a dip in Sangam. For the primary time, the most important ‘akhadas’ of sadhus determined to permit commoners to take a dip first after which took their holy dip known as ‘Amrit Snan’. Lakhs of devotees had been in the meantime stranded in Varanasi, Jaunpur, Pratpgarh, Fatehpur and different cities of UP, since entry of autos into Prayagraj was prohibited in view of the large inflow.
A 3-member judicial inquiry fee has been set as much as probe the circumstances resulting in the stampede. It will likely be headed by Justice Harsh Kumar, former Director Common of Police V Okay Gupta and retired IAS officer DK Singh. This tragedy that occurred on the auspicious event of Mauni Amavasya is admittedly coronary heart wrenching. The problem is just not the quantity of people that died or had been injured within the crush. A single devotee shedding his life is saddening.
It’s a proven fact that numerous devotees had reached the Sangam earlier than the auspicious time, in an effort to be the primary to take the holy dip. Most of them had been sleeping on the bottom close to Sangam when the stampede occurred. Those that broke the police boundaries and ran in direction of the Sangam, didn’t trouble that they had been trampling on different pilgrims who had been sleeping.
I take into account this a severe lapse on a part of the administration. It did not anticipate such a state of affairs. CCTV cameras had been working, drones had been out there, hundreds of policemen had been deployed, Particular Job Pressure, Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure, Nationwide Safety Guards had been out there, however no one anticipated such a state of affairs. However to say that the stampede occurred due to mismanagement will likely be doing an injustice to the hundreds of policemen and personnel who labored day and evening on the Maha Kumbh.
Crores of pilgrims from everywhere in the nation descended for Maha Kumbh after watching media stories about large preparations made for offering sleeping areas, clear bogs, medicines and hospitals. No one imagined that good preparations may create a special kind of drawback.
Those that took a holy dip at Sangam, stayed put within the Maha Kumbh space, unwilling to go away instantly. They wished to look at the well-known processions of Sadhus, Shankaracharyas, significantly Naga ascetics, going for his or her bathtub on the Sangam. That they had good telephones with them, able to report the visuals of sadhus taking their bathtub. It was solely then that the authorities realized that controlling the pilgrims may turn into tough. Barricades had been damaged and the crowds trampled upon sleeping devotees.
I wish to reward the shankaracharyas and mahamandaleshwars current at Maha Kumbh, who issued movies at evening, interesting to individuals to take their holy dip at any bathing ghat of river Ganga, and chorus from congregating on the Sangam. Secondly, the shankaracharyas determined to delay their bathing procession as a result of midnight stampede and allowed frequent individuals to take their dip first.
The short preparations made by Yogi Adityanath, coupled with shut coordination between the Centre and state authorities, confirmed outcomes on the bottom instantly. The keenness and fervour among the many lakhs of devotees returned. For the reason that ‘akhadas’ of sadhus had delayed their bathing procession, lakhs of individuals went as much as the Sangam and took their holy dip, with none worry. India TV reporters met individuals from as far-off as Karnataka, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Assam, who had include their households for the holy dip on Mauni Amavasya.
It was a wonderful sight with shankaracharyas, acharyas, maha mandaleshwars and different sadhus performing their “Amrit Snan” after the gang of devotees had left. All of us ought to congratulate them for displaying sagacity in dealing with the state of affairs.
Alternatively, leaders from the opposition, as is their wont, tried to make the stampede a political problem. Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Mayawati and leaders from Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena criticized Yogi authorities for the tragedy. Many of the political leaders alleged that the tragedy may have been averted, if native authorities weren’t preoccupied due to what they known as, “VIP tradition”. Naturally, individuals who noticed VVIPs taking their bathtub at Sangam with ease, will consider this. However, to hyperlink the midnight tragedy with the VIP syndrome is not going to be appropriate.
There was a whole ban on VIP motion throughout Mauni Amavasya and all VIP passes for Mauni Amavasya had been cancelled. That is an previous protocol. Consultants recalled when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister in 1954, practically 1,000 individuals misplaced their lives in an enormous stampede on the day of “Shahi Snan”. Quickly after that tragedy 71 years in the past, a protocol was enforced in line with which no VIP motion could be allowed on “Shahi Snan” day on the Kumbh Mela. Anyway, such a historic background and clarification can now be termed as political. It has nothing to do with these households who’ve misplaced their close to and expensive ones.
We are able to solely hope that the injured devotees get better quickly. We are able to solely enchantment to the federal government to be extra cautious whereas making preparations. We are able to pray to Maa Ganga to offer power to the devotees for bearing their loss.
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