‘If the police had not put a barricade, my wife would have been alive today …’ Tribhuvan of Lucknow cried while stating the travele
Mahakumbh News: After a huge crowd of devotees on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya in Mahakumbh, a stampede took away the happiness of many families. There are still many people in the fair, who are not getting any information about their families. Manju Pandey was also one of those who lost their lives in the stampede in Mahakumbh who wanted to take a bath of Mauni Amavasya in any way.
Manju Pandey’s husband Tribhuvan Pandey while talking to Aaj Tak said, ‘My wife Manju Pandey had a lot of mind to take a bath on Mauni Amavasya … He told me that this opportunity is coming once in 144 years, Will not come again, does not want to lose it. I could not refuse them and took them along. The initiative was all right, but as soon as the police reached Hanuman ji, the police completely closed the barricade. The mob opposed this but the police did not listen.
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People came out even while crushing me
Tribhuvan Pandey wept while stating Aapbati. He said that after this, there was a stampede in the affair of going to Sangam. All the police rode on each other but did not open the barricade. He says, ‘Many people went walking on me too, on my head on the shoulder, there was a lot of injuries on the leg, I fainted there. When the eyes opened, many people were standing around me, I wanted to find my wife but she did not meet.
Police held responsible
Tribhuvan Pandey, a resident of Lucknow, is retired from HAL. Pandey says that after the stampede I wandered to find my wife but she could not be found. By evening my family asked me to console that my wife is admitted to PGI.
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Tribhuvan says that if the police had not put a barricade, my wife would have been alive today. She kept on telling me that we are very lucky who have come here.
