Mahakumbh Stampede: A big reason for the stampede at Mahakumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh is also being considered as a coincidence of 144 years. In this auspicious time, people kept sitting at the ghat for a confluence bath and lying on the ghat, when the uncontrollable crowd came and crushed him. The statements of eyewitnesses are indicating this.
Madhumita, an eyewitness to this incident, says that people were waiting and lying at Sangam Ghat for the morning. At that time, the crowd of people broke the barriers for the nectar bath of the akhadas and moved towards the ghat and the people lying on the ghat were hit by this crowd.
Elderly woman Badama Devi, who came from Begusarai, said, ‘Son, such an opportunity will not be found again in this birth, that is why we came to bathe in Ganga Maiya from such a distance.’ Ram Sumiran, who came from Palamu in Jharkhand, also tells the same. He says, ‘After 144 years, this virtuous bath has come to which no one wants to lose. This is the reason that people from the world camped under the open sky on the banks of the Sangam. Then they were buried under the public, breaking the barrier.
‘Administration continued request’
Eyewitnesses say that the Mandalayukta Vijay Vishwas Pant of Prayagraj kept telling the small loudspeakers again and again that ‘all the devotees should listen … here there is no benefit from lying down (Sangam coast). The one who is soot is lost. Wake up and take a bath. This is necessary to stay safe. Many people will come and there is a possibility of stampede. If you have come first, then you should first take a nectar bath. All the devotees are requested to get up .. get up .. get up and go back after taking a bath. But the devotees kept waiting for the auspicious coincidence and this incident happened.
However, the administration already had an idea of ​​the situation that people would stand in the confluence on Mauni Amavasya, in such a situation, it was also the responsibility of the administration to remove the people from there somehow.
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