Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has denied accusations of hiding death figures related to the Maha Kumbh stampede.
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00:00Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has denied suppressing the Kumbh debts.
00:04Yogi Adityanath says all debts can't be linked to Mahakumbh.
00:08Only one stampede victim was unidentified.
00:11800 devotees died in the previous Kumbh, says Yogi Adityanath.
00:15Earlier the government lathi-charged Kumbh devotees, is what Yogi Adityanath has said.
00:24The chief minister is speaking in the assembly. Let's take a listen.
00:30Yogi Adityanath speaks in the assembly.
01:00Yogi Adityanath speaks in the assembly.
01:28The Uttar Pradesh chief minister there denying the suppressing
01:31debts in Mahakumbh. All debts can't be linked to Mahakumbh is what he said.
01:37I'm going to go straight across to Samar for more details on that.
01:40Samar, the number one charge of the opposition has been about the fact that there aren't 30
01:44deaths. There are many more and that there have been many more stampedes as well is what is being
01:49said. No figures being given out, correct me if I'm wrong by the chief minister, but he says
01:54all the debts can't be linked to the Mahakumbh, to the stampede I mean.
02:02Exactly Neha, I must tell you that chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath
02:06has clearly denied all those things, all those allegations being made by opposition parties,
02:12especially Samajwadi party, that the numbers that were given by the UP government of that
02:17stampede that happened on 29th are wrong. So that's the claim by UP CM. He says that 30
02:23persons lost their lives and around 60 devotees were injured out of which 30 lost their lives.
02:29One is still admitted in the hospital. While all were identified, one person was missing,
02:34was in a way and that's why his DNA sample was collected and later he was cremated by the
02:40administration and the police present there. And he even claimed that many families did not want
02:45the postmortem of the bodies and that's why under the watch of the magistrate present there,
02:51they handed over the body to those families without the postmortem thing because many
02:55families believed that they have gone for the Mahakumbh at a sacred place and now after coming
03:00at that place when they have lost their life, there is no need of any postmortem. So on the
03:04basis of these families, they denied doing postmortem of many of the dead bodies. So
03:10also he took heavily on Akhilesh Shadab and slammed Akhilesh Shadab saying that Akhilesh
03:14was once questioning Mahakumbh and later on he went to Mahakumbh, took the holy dip without
03:19informing anybody. He thought that people won't know about this but in the era of social media,
03:25nothing could be hidden. He even took pot shots at Shehpal Singh Yadav and said
03:30that Akhilesh Shadab in a way once again backstabbed his uncle Shehpal Yadav and
03:35without taking him to Mahakumbh, he went alone and took the holy dip. So these were the claims
03:41being made by Yogi Adityanath out here. He was very specific about Mahakumbh and that's why
03:46he was replying to all the allegations by Samajwadi Party.