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Akhilesh Yadav requested the Centre to immediately handover Maha Kumbh Mela’s administration and management to the Indian Army.
Former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav taking a holy dip in Sangam during Maha Kumbh Mela 2025. (X/@@yadavakhilesh)
Bodies were filled in JCB machines and tractors, and no one knows there they went, alleged former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav while speaking in Lok Sabha on Maha Kumbh stampede. His statement is likely to spark a controversy ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to Prayagraj on Wednesday.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) chief requested the Centre to immediately handover Maha Kumbh Mela‘s administration and management to the Indian Army, citing a loss of faith in the Uttar Pradesh government’s handling of the event.
Akhilesh Yadav had himself taken a holy dip in Sangam during Maha Kumbh last month and took to X to speak on the significance of the rare celestial alignment occurring only once every 144 years.
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