The toll in the Hathras tragedy that occured yesterday afternoon has now reached to 121 with forty injured, majority of them severely being treated in various hospitals. The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath this morning visited various hospitals in Hathras etc and personally interacted with the injured trying to understand the exact reason behind this huge tragedy. He met good number of injured and interacted with the assuring of all possible treatment and help from the government’s side. Three ministers of the Uttar Pradesh government, its DGP and chief secretary UP are stationed at Hathras and closely monitoring the situation on the instructions of the UP CM Yogi Adityanath. Addressing a press conference at Hathras Yogi Adityanath announced about the high level probe committee constituted by his government and said that this is major tragedy which will be probed deeply and those responsible for this mishappening will not be spared at any cost. Disclosing about the tragedy after interacting with the cross section of the people Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said that when the religious Guru Narayan Saakar aka Bhole Baba whose real name is Suraj Pal Singh was leaving the venue after finishing his discourse, good number of women devotees rushed towards him to touch his feet and pick up the soil of his feet . Meanwhile hundreds or devotees coming from behind also rushed towards him crushing the women devotees n the sequel continued. Yogi Adityanath accused the Sewadaars of the Religious congregation for pushing the devotees also leading to the massive stampede saying that had they been alert they could have avoided this mishap. Meanwhile, the police department who is on a look out for the Religious guru Bhole baba aka Narayan Saakar by dispatching several teams in different locations/ hide outs has registered the FIR against Pramukh Sewadar n several others but the religious/ spiritual Guru Suraj Pal Singh aka Narain Saakar aka Bhole baba has been left out. He is absconding since yesterday afternoon and is believed to have been living in spacious Etta Ashram where police has been lodged in large numbers. It may be recalled that the permission was granted to allow 80000 devotees in the religious congregation but there were allegedly 2.5 lakh people and the number was clandestinely kept away from the Hathras District Administration.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath write on his social media handle X :
The state government has decided that a judicial inquiry will be conducted into the unfortunate incident of Hathras district under the chairmanship of a retired judge of the honourable High Court…
The central and state governments have announced financial assistance in connection with the unfortunate incident that took place in Hathras district…
We will arrange for the education of the minor children of the innocent people who became victims of the accident through the state government under the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Bal Seva Yojana…
The Congress general secretary in-charge of UP Priyanka Gandhi came down heavily on the state government led by BJP writing on X : Three times more crowd than permitted, no administration present, no crowd management arrangements, no way to escape from scorching heat, no medical team, no ambulance after the incident, no force for help, no doctors and facilities in the hospital… such a long list of negligence but no one is accountable. Who is responsible for the tragic incident that happened in Hathras? Sometimes hundreds of people die due to bridge collapse, sometimes due to train accidents, sometimes due to stampede. Instead of covering up the matter, it is the government’s responsibility to take action and prepare a plan to prevent such accidents. But accountability is not fixed and such accidents keep happening. This is a very sad situation.
The former UP CM n leader of SP MP Lok Sabha Akhilesh Yadav while expressing his deepest condolences on Hathras tragedy wrote on X : Received the sad news of ‘Hathras accident’. Tributes to all the dead! There is a need to assess the human errors that occur in such events and also learn lessons for the future. A thorough investigation and action taken based on it can prevent recurrence of such accidents in the future. Deepest condolences to the bereaved families!
