Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday stated 20 stampedes happened in the BJP-ruled states, and blamed “mass hysteria” for the Chinnaswamy arena event in June that eliminated 11 individuals.
Responding to a conversation in the Assembly on the June 4 stampede, the Chief Minister read out the list of stampedes beginning with the one that happened on August 3, 2008, at Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, when Prem Singh Dhumal was the Chief Minister, followed by the stampede in Jodhpur in 2008, which eliminated 250 individuals.
The stampedes he described consist of the one that had actually occurred in Ratangarh in 2013, Haridwar in 2021, Sehore in MP in 2023, and Hathras in UP in which 121 individuals were eliminated in 2024.
He likewise discussed the Prayagraj stampede throughout Kumbh Mela in January this year that declared the lives of 39 individuals. CM likewise discussed the Gujarat Morbi bridge collapse in 2022 in which 135 individuals were eliminated.
“Did Yogi Adityanath resign as UP CM” after Kumbh Mela stampede in Prayagraj, in which 39 individuals were eliminated, questioned Siddaramaiah.
“In my 42 years of political life, never such an incident took place. I had never seen 11 people dying in a stampede. I am pained. I expressed my sorrow the same day,” the Chief Minister stated.
He stated individuals viewed RCB’s triumph in the IPL match as Bengaluru’s pride. The mass hysteria produced by it lagged the stampede.
“We sometimes have to bow to the people’s expectations in democracy. That’s the sign of democracy,” Siddaramaiah stated, keeping in mind that he needed to go to the success event of RCB.