Many people are expected to get casualties due to a stampede situation in the crowd of crores of devotees on the Mauni Amavasya in the Mahakumbh Mela early Wednesday. After this incident, all the akharas have decided not to bathe in the nectar. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath about the situation of Kumbh Mela.
Special Executive Officer for the fair, Akanksha Rana told reporters that the broke up on Sangam Noj created a stampede -like situation in which some people have been injured and they are currently undergoing treatment. The injured have been admitted to the hospital established in the fair area where relatives of several injured have also reached.
Meanwhile, the first arena reached to bathe the nectar, the first arena, Mahanirvani returned without bathing. All India Akhara Parishad President Ravindra Puri told reporters, “The Akhara Parishad decided that today we will not bathe all the Akhara Amrit.”
Crying outside the hospital, a woman named Sarojini said, “Our batch of 60 people has come in two buses. We had nine people in the group that suddenly pushed and many people fell. We got trapped and the crowd became uncontrollable. ” He told ‘PTI video’, “There was no chance to escape because it was being pushed from all sides.”
Mahant Ravindra Puri told the journalists, “All the saints had a throne for the Mahatmas and all the saints including Naga ascetics were ready for bathing. When we came to hear that an incident had happened, then we decided in the public interest that we will not take a bath of Mauni Amavasya today. “
He told, “We saw in mobile that such an accident happened. We also told the officials about this. All our akharas have decided that we will not take a bath of Mauni Amavasya.
Mahant Ravindra Puri said, “Our next bath will be on Basant Panchami. You must be seeing that devotees from abroad from all four directions are reaching here. It is a big thing to control such a large crowd. All saintly saints will have to take decisions for public interest. At the same time, devotees should maintain restraint and those who have taken a bath should return their destinations. ”
According to the tradition of Kumbh Mela, sannyasis, Bairagi and indifferent akhadas reach the Sangam coast with a grand procession and take a Amrit bath in a fixed order in which Panchayati Akhara Mahanirvani takes bath in the first place in order. Earlier, the fair administration issued counseling for devotees on Tuesday itself.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Kumbh) Rajesh Dwivedi urged the devotees that all the ghats are Sangam Ghats and take a bath there. He appealed to the devotees to avoid rumors.
It is noteworthy that 4.83 crore people took a bath till 8 pm on Tuesday, one day before Mauni Amavasya, while earlier on Makar Sankranti, 3.5 crore people took a dip in the confluence on Paush Purnima and 1.7 crore on Paush Purnima.
