Jaya Bachchan claims ‘Mahakumbh stampede victims’ our bodies thrown into river’, VHP calls for her arrest
Samajwadi Occasion chief Jaya Bachchan on Monday sparked a recent row after she claimed that the water of river in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj is the “most contaminated” proper now as our bodies of the Mahakumbh stampede victims had been “being thrown into the river”.
She additionally dismissed the Yogi Adityanath-led authorities’s claims in regards to the devotee turnout on the Mahakumbh Mela 2025, asking how such a big crowd could possibly be at one place at any given level.
Final week, no less than 30 individuals had been killed in a stampede that broke out on the Mahakumbh as scores of devotees turned up for the second Amrit Snan on the event of Mauni Amavasya on the Sangam. The incident raised extreme issues and questions over the preparations made in Prayagraj for the Kumbh Mela.
The grand Mahakumbh pageant kickstarted on January 13 and can conclude on Mahashivaratri on February 26.
‘They’re mendacity’
Talking to reporters outdoors the Parliament on Monday, Jaya Bachchan claimed, “The place is the water most contaminated proper now? It is in Kumbh. Our bodies (of those that died within the stampede) have been thrown into the river due to which the water has been contaminated.”
She mentioned the actual points on the Kumbh will not be being addressed, saying no preparations had been made for the widespread folks visiting the Mahakumbh and neither are they “receiving any particular remedy.”
“They’re mendacity that crores of individuals have visited the place, how can such a lot of folks collect in that place at any given level?” she mentioned in regards to the UP authorities’s information on devotee turnout on the Kumbh.
Parliament proceedings started amid chaos as Opposition legislators raised slogans over the Mahakumbh stampede and demanded a dialogue on the identical. Their sloganeering focused PM Modi and UP CM Adityanath.
Because the sloganeering continued all through the query hour, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla needed to urge members to not let the hour be interrupted and ask them to boost the problems after that interval.
Congress nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha and different Opposition leaders additionally demanded a listing of the deceased within the Kumbh stampede. Kharge paid tributes to the “hundreds” who died within the stampede, triggering a large uproar from the ruling bench members.
Rapidly including to his assertion, the Congress chief mentioned the figures he was speaking about had been his “estimate”, including that if that wasn’t proper, “the federal government ought to inform what’s the fact”.
VHP calls for Jaya Bachchan’s arrest
In the meantime, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) demanded that Jaya Bachchan be arrested for her remarks claiming “our bodies” of the stampede victims had been thrown into the river.
VHP media-in-charge Sharad Sharma mentioned that the SP Rajya Sabha MP’s remarks had been “unlucky”.
He mentioned an announcement from an MP holding such a excessive submit “goes to create instability within the nation”. Sharma additional mentioned, “Jaya Bachchan ought to be arrested for spreading sensation by giving false and unfaithful statements.”
He famous that Mahakumbh is the “spine of religion and devotion” and that the feelings of crores of devotees are connected to this nice ritual.
Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion mentioned that it smelt a conspiracy behind the stampede and that these chargeable for it must cling their heads in disgrace as soon as the investigation is over.
(with PTI inputs)
