Akhilesh Yadav questions lack of official figures on Mahakumbh stampede deaths

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged mismanagement at the Mahakumbh, questioning the lack of official figures on stampede deaths despite heavy promotion of digitisation.

The Kannauj MP also hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government saying the "double engine government is doing double blunders" and saying that there is nothing in the budget for PDA (pichda, dalit and alpsankhyak).

"First time, devotees at Kumbh have got stuck in a 300-km-long traffic jam, the borders have been sealed... Is this an image of 'Viksit Bharat' where the government is not even able to manage traffic? What is the point of going on moon when we cannot settle issues on earth," he asked.


"I want to ask where are those drones now?... The whole advertisement about digitisation... even then they are not able to give figures of those who have died in Kumbh," Yadav said.