AICC satisfied with steps taken after stadium stampede, says CM

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday briefed AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge and Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi about the steps taken after the June 4 stampede outside the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru during the RCB victory celebrations.

The CM told the media in Delhi that he explained the sequence of events and the follow-up steps taken, and the leaders were satisfied with the government response. He was accompanied by Dy CM DK Shivakumar and AICC general secretaries KC Venugopal and RC Surjewala were present in the meeting.

Asked if the state government would take responsibility for the stampede deaths in Bengaluru, he said the same would apply to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and wondered if he resigned over the lives lost in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj early this year.


About the BJP’s plans to raise the stampede deaths issue in Parliament, he said the party must first discuss the lives lost during the Maha Kumbh and the bridge collapse in Gujarat killing people within days of the PM opening it.