Jul 05, 2024 11:20 AM IST
Hathras stampede case: The incident passed off at an occasion devoted to preacher Bhole Baba.
Rahul Gandhi, the Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha, on Friday visited Hathras and met with the households of stampede victims. He mentioned the kin of the deceased advised him that ample police preparations had not been made for the non secular occasion, which led to the stampede.
121 folks, principally girls, died within the Hathras stampede on Tuesday.
Rahul Gandhi mentioned he did not need to politicise the tragedy. He demanded extra compensation for the households of those that died.
“It’s a unhappy incident. A number of folks have died. I do not need to say this from a political prism however there have been deficiencies on the a part of the administration and the essential factor is that most compensation ought to be given as they’re poor households. I request UP CM Yogi Adityanath to supply compensation open-heartedly. If there’s a delay within the compensation, it won’t profit anybody. I had a private dialog with the members of the family of the deceased and so they advised me that there was no police association. They’re in shock and I simply needed to know their state of affairs…,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned after the assembly, reported ANI.
Congress chief Danish Ali, who accompanied Gandhi, mentioned the UP authorities wasn’t taking the tragedy significantly.
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“That is an unlucky incident. We left at 5 am with Rahul Gandhi. The tales of the victims are heart-wrenching… Neither any duty of the administration has been mounted nor the federal government is taking this significantly,” he mentioned.
The stampede passed off at a non secular occasion devoted to preacher Bhole Baba. The UP police have arrested six organisers of the occasion. Nonetheless, the primary accused is absconding.
Bhole Baba hasn’t been named within the FIR.
Rahul Gandhi left for Hathras early Friday morning. He visited two Aligarh villages on the way in which, the place he met with the households who misplaced their family members within the stampede.
The UP authorities has constituted a probe panel beneath a retired Allahabad excessive court docket choose. The Congress has demanded a judicial probe beneath a serving choose.