Lucknow: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed in Parliament that the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj was a “defining moment in India’s history”, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav made a serious and grave claim.
The former UP chief minister said that about 1,000 Hindu devotees who had gone to the Mahakumbh – from January 13 to February 26 — were still missing.
“The BJP and its people should help the families of those who lost their loved ones in the Mahakumbh. Even now, 1000 Hindus are missing from the Kumbh whose whereabouts are not known. The BJP should provide information on the 1000 people who are missing,” Akhilesh said.
“The government should find the Hindu brethren who are missing and unite them with their families. People put up posters of missing people and the government is even getting those removed,” Akhilesh claimed.
The Lok Sabha MP from UP’s Kannauj asked what was the budget allocated by the Central government for the Mahakumbh.
“Can anyone imagine that the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were deciding where the vehicles will be parked. There were a number of IPS officials who were stopping people from going for the ‘snan’, saying that they do not have the capacity to facilitate them,” PTI quoted Akhilesh as saying outside Parliament premises.
“People were being stopped at the borders. The Centre would have given a budget for the Mahakumbh to the state government — that should be mentioned. At a time when pages of history are being turned, the biggest loss of lives has been of Hindu devotees,” he said.
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