Stampedo before dawn at the massive Hindu festival in the north of India, he created a devastation. But the order was quickly renovated in the next few hours.
On Wednesday morning, ambulances spilled through many million people who gathered in the town of Moyagraj. They swallowed dozens of people in hospitals, of whom they took place to death.
Local officials have moved to the continuation of the rite at the MAHA KUMBH MELA, relying on thousands of video cameras “AI drives”. Soon the believers did what they came to: bathing on the mouth of the three rivers that were considered holy, one of which was mythical. The helicopter showering the rose petals on the aspects leading the holy limb.
Officials studied Stampedes at the earlier readings of the festival. But as they seemed to be equipped as they looked, they did not let the initial number of deaths almost 15 hours after the tragedy.
What they were constantly released were good news: regular updates about how many people filled the bathing ritual.
It seems that the lack of information about the victims of Stampede, the official effort to cover up the damage at an event that is significant for the richness of political leaders said. He left the families of those looking for a loved one in the dark and run from the hospital to the morgue.
And he left a cloud over an official number that was finally announced on Wednesday night – 30 dead and 90 injured.
Among those who sought their loved ones in the vacuum of information was Shiv Shankar Singh, 55, a retired military officer, he and his wife gathered at the Ganges and Yamuna River, and mythical Sarasvati, shortly after midnight and then captured in Stamped.
He was looking for her all day, moving on foot from a hospital to a hospital in an area where miles were limited to the movement of the vehicle.
“Everyone pushed everyone else. My wife fell,” Mr. Singh said. “I grabbed a pillar and stood on the ground. I saved myself, but I don’t know what happened to her.”
Kumbh Mela, which happens every 12 years, is a huge venture by any standard. This year, due to the rare celestial alignment, it was considered the appearance of a century. The Government in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous country in India, said she expects more than 400 million pilgrims and visitors to Moyagraj at the 45-day festival.
Yogi Adityanaanath, Chief Minister of the State, is considered to be one of the candidates who inherited Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Analysts said he was set up in front of the middle as the organizer of the largest gathering in the world in an attempt to build his national profile as an administrator that could mix two things of dear India: religion and technology.
While early in January, he assessed preparations for the festival, Mr. Adityanath, 52, pointed his fingers at his predecessors because of the surgery of past festivals, which led to the deadly veins. He said he wanted arrangements that could be “a lesson to those who made the organization of the KumbH Maha Synonym for Dirt and Stampede.”
“Yogi has been advertised as more than life, greater than Uttar Pradesh,” said Rasheed Kidwai, author and political analyst. “The success of the event would mean to announce to the world,” here’s a man who has gathered without effort by a gathering of 400 million people. “This posture would become important for the post-modal era.”
Government Uttar Pradesh has a public relations budget of over $ 100 million for a year, and Some of that goes to the media who provide friendly coverage.
There is also introduced a new social media policy This gives financial incentives to influences that promote the success of the state, while promising action against reporting “Government schemes in the wrong way or with the wrong purpose”, according to News reports.
The retention of that influence was clear after the tragedy. The television channels had regular telephone conversations by Mr. Adityanath, Mr. Modi, 74, and that everything was under surveillance. During the day, they repeated the video statement of Mr. Adityanath, in which he did not mention death, but asked people not to fall for rumors.
But some saw through a public relations campaign.
“It is reminiscent of the opacity of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government after a widespread death during the second wave of Coid-19 in March 2021, whose scale was obvious later when it was terrible when he was horrible, when the ladder was visible when Images of a body hovering in ganga He appeared, “wrote the Hindu National Newspaper on Thursday.
Mr. Adityanath ordered a probe in delay. His officials did not explain what caused the delay in providing a toll to an accident. His office did not respond to comment requests.
Vikram Singh, former Uttar Pradesh police chief who has been monitoring the arrangements in the last Kumbhs, said that some of the delay could be attributed to a huge logistical request of such a huge event. Officials would be focused on evacuating the injured and proper treatment, he said.
But he also struggled to understand the scope of the delay, which he said he had just encouraged the rumor mill to “work overtime” to put the killed number of 50 to 200 in a vacuum of official information.
Another Mr. Singh, who was separated from his wife, went to the festival lost and found in the rack to look for her. He registered an appeal with her details. He returned to the mouth of the river. He walked from the hospital to the hospital and back to the festival site.
There, in the evening, Mr Singh finally had good news in one of the lost and found centers. His wife fell into Stampedo, but luckily, she was not injured and waited for hours.
“If they had communicated, then I would have found her much earlier,” he said, referring to the lost and found cabins. “But I’m happy now that I’ve found my wife.”
Fare kb and Dry paradise Contribute to reporting from New Delhi.
