Maha Kumbh: Huge crowd of devotees leads to massive traffic jam, Akhilesh Yadav attacks on Yogi Govt

A severe traffic jam extending for kilometers used to be witnessed on the routes to the Maha Kumbh Mela right here on Sunday with Samajwadi Get together president Akhilesh Yadav asking the govt.to construct emergency arrangements for the stranded devotees.

Greater than 1.42 crore devotees took bathtub in Ganga and Sangam till 6 pm on Sunday, in accordance to the records launched by the ideally suited administration. Greater than 42 crore devotees hang to this level taken a dip in Ganga and Sangam.

Regarding the traffic jam, Samajwadi Get together president Akhilesh Yadav in a put up on X acknowledged, “Emergency arrangements should be made straight away for the crores of devotees stranded in Prayagraj Maha Kumbh. The hungry, thirsty, distressed and tired pilgrims within the traffic jam in each build apart should be looked at with a humane standpoint. Is the typical devotee now no longer a human being?”

“There may be already a jam in Nawabganj 30 kms before the entry into Prayagraj in the direction of Lucknow, a jam in Gauhania 16 kms before the Rewa aspect motorway, and a jam of 12 to 15 kms in the direction of Varanasi and information of the crowd entering even the engine of the whisper is being revealed in each build apart. Regular existence has change into advanced,” he wrote on the social media platform.

Yadav acknowledged, “The UP govt has failed. It is visible best in false ads fats of conceitedness, but the truth is it is missing on the ground.”

In one more put up on ‘X’ Yadav shared a video it appears to be like to be from Madhya Pradesh in which police personnel are seen asking folk on the aspect motorway now no longer to commute in the direction of Prayagraj alive to by a valuable traffic on the route.

Akhilesh Yadav moreover attacked on Yogi Adityanath govt and wrote, “There may be ‘BJP govt’ on every aspect. One says come to Maha Kumbh, the opposite says don’t imperfect over.”

BJP is the ruling celebration in both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Ram Kripal, who came from Rae Bareli, acknowledged that he used to be stuck within the jam for 5 hours before Phaphamau on the Lucknow Prayagraj motorway, adding he one blueprint or the opposite parked his automobile in Bela Kachhar and pickle out on foot from there to Sangam Ghat.

ADCP (Visitors) Kuldeep Singh acknowledged, “The probability of automobiles is terribly high and the passengers are trying to come aid as shut as that it is probably you'll imagine to the Maha Kumbh Mela space. Due to this, there is a protracted jam.

Singh acknowledged that merely referring to the equal crowd is coming now as had come on ‘Mauni Amavasya’.

The distant automobile automobile automobile parking space is 50 per cent fats. The nearest automobile automobile automobile parking space is a small automobile automobile automobile parking space, whereas the distant automobile automobile automobile parking space is big, he acknowledged.

He acknowledged that the automobiles of the native folk construct now no longer flee on the showering festival, but now all styles of automobiles are working.

In the last (2019) Kumbh, there used to be now no longer so fundamental crowd, especially on usual days, but this time such a valuable crowd is approaching usual days, Singh acknowledged, adding the crowd of devotees does now no longer appear to scale back for the next few days.

In the interim, Senior Divisional Industrial Supervisor (Northern Railway), Lucknow, Kuldeep Tiwari, acknowledged, “For the reason that passengers had been going by concern in getting out of the residence due to heavy crowd outdoors Prayagraj Sangam residence, it used to be decided to shut Prayagraj Sangam residence in conception of the heavy crowd of devotees.”

Then once more, the North Central Railway has implemented a single direction traffic system at the Prayagraj Junction residence till further orders in conception of the tall crowd of devotees.

North Central Railway Senior Public Family participants Officer Amit Malviya acknowledged that for the protection and convenience of the passengers, entry will be given best from town aspect (in the direction of platform no.-1) and exit will be best from the Civil Traces aspect.

He acknowledged that unreserved passengers will be given entry by direction wise passenger refuge. Mark arrangements will be within the damage of unreserved designate counters, ATVMs and mobile ticketing within the passenger shelters.

Equally, reserved passengers will be given entry by gate quantity 5 and they'll be allowed to head to the platform best half an hour before the advent of the whisper.

(With Inputs From PTI)