Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the government of hiding the real death toll numbers in the Maha Kumbh stampede and demanded that punitive action be taken against those officials, whom he claimed conspired and colluded to conceal the real figures.
The stampede that broke out on Mauni Amavasya, one of the biggest Amrit Snans, resulted in the death of about 30 devotees and injury to more than 60.
Speaking in Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to President’s Address, Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the government was deliberately holding back the death toll numbers and demanded that it shares the entire details of Maha Kumbh including availability of doctors, medicines and other arrangements in the Parliament.