Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
Lucknow: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will visit Hathras on Friday. This will be the first visit of a senior opposition leader to Hathras since the incident of satsang took place. Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai said that Rahul Gandhi will meet the family members of the stampede victims.
will meet the victims’ families
According to the information, Rahul Gandhi will meet the families of the victims of the Hathras incident at Pilkhana in Aligarh at 7 am on Friday. After this, he will meet the families of the victims at Green Park, Vibhav Nagar in Hathras at 8:15 am. Earlier, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Hathras on Wednesday and met the victims.
Congress blamed the government
Congress’ Uttar Pradesh unit president Ajay Rai on Thursday blamed the state government for the Hathras stampede incident. “The Hathras incident is a failure of the Uttar Pradesh government. Yesterday the chief minister visited Hathras and later deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak also went there. They did not go together, it shows internal strife,” Rai told reporters at the party’s state headquarters. He reiterated the Congress’ demand for a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the families of those killed in the stampede and Rs 25 lakh to the injured.
demand for judicial investigation
Ajay Rai said that we also want that the judicial investigation of the incident should be done by a sitting judge of the High Court, not a retired judge. The state government on Wednesday constituted a judicial investigation commission headed by a retired judge of Allahabad High Court to investigate the incident. Let us tell you that 121 people lost their lives due to the stampede in the satsang. While many people were injured. Many people are being treated in the hospital.
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