More than 1,000 Kumbh visitors still missing; govt engaged in erasing queries, alleges Akhilesh Yadav

Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that more than 1000 people who went missing at Maha Kumbh were yet to be found and challenged the state government to give a status on the matter to their families. Yadav was addressing reporters outside the Parliament. The SP chief also asked the Centre to declare the exact amount sanctioned for the Maha Kumb festival.

Yadav also took a dig Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, saying that he wonders whether the government had any plans to give jobs to "four lakh youths" who were roped in to ferry the pilgrims to the Maha Kumbh on their motorcycles, as claimed by the CM.

Additionally, the former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party government over the law-and-order situation in the state. The Samajwadi Party chief also alleged that the BJP government was misusing police force for political gain and it was getting false cases registered against the leaders of opposition parties and harassing them.

"Our Chief Minister is an amazing man. He says four lakh youths having bikes were employed. And what commercial way have you adopted to allow business from bikes...It means that youths will get jobs after 144 years," Yadav said in Mahoba on Sunday.

The SP chief further attacked the BJP government on the issue of health services in the state, saying they were in a shambles. “Patients are not getting medicines and treatment. Hospitals and medical colleges do not have adequate staff of doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff. The BJP government raises issues like Sambhal and Aurangzeb to hide its failures,” he said, and also added that the policies of the BJP government have failed while inflation, unemployment and corruption were at their peak. To divert attention from issues related to the public, the BJP is spreading hatred in society.