Etawah (UP), Feb 23 (UNI) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is misleading the public by constantly lying and hurting religious sentiments.
While talking to reporters after attending the ceremony, Akhilesh raised several questions related to Kumbh and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of a big scam.
He said that CM Yogi is claiming that this Maha Kumbh is happening after 144 years, whereas this is not mentioned in any scripture.
He said, “According to the scriptures, Kumbh takes place in Prayagraj every 12 years and Maha Kumbh does not happen every 144 years, but after every 12th Kumbh that is in the 144th year.”
The SP chief targeted the Yogi government and said that if the Maha Kumbh was actually being organised after 144 years, then why did the government not mention it in the budget session?
“It is clearly written in the budget session documents that Kumbh is organised every 12 years. This means that the government is serving lies to the public,” he said.
He said, “The CM is also claiming that UP has received economic benefits of about Rs 3.5 lakh crore from this event. If this is true, then this amount should also be recorded in the GST data. The government should make its complete details public, so that the public can know the reality. The government has claimed to have spent about Rs 15,000 crore for the Prayagraj Kumbh, but the reality is telling something else.”
He said, “Devotees are facing problems due to mismanagement and chaos. Chaos and negligence prevail everywhere. This makes it clear that there has been large-scale corruption in this event.”
He said that when there will be a proper investigation, then the real scam will be revealed.
Akhilesh raised the question that the CM had claimed that arrangements for 100 crore people have been made for the Kumbh, but the ground reality is telling something else.
“If arrangements had really been made for such a large number of people, then why are there constant reports of chaos and troubles of devotees?,” he said.
He said that the BJP government has failed on every front in organising the Maha Kumbh.
“Devotees are facing huge difficulties in reaching Prayagraj. The number of trains and buses is insufficient. The condition of the roads remains dilapidated. The government, which claims to clean the Ganga, has failed to provide clean water at Sangam,” he said.
The SP chief said that a dispute has come to the fore between the Central and State Pollution Control Boards.
“Many people died in the stampede, but the government is unable to even tell the correct figures.
No help was given to the families of the dead and the injured. Many accidents occurred during the movement of devotees, in which many people lost their lives. But the BJP government did not help any of the affected families,” he said.
He said that the BJP calls its government a double engine, but it is actually a double blunder government. He said that there has been a scam in the Maha Kumbh, in which government money has been misused on a large scale.
He said, “The entire budget was cleared in the name of cleaning the Ganga. The money that came to fill the potholes on the roads was lost to corruption. The BJP government has turned the Maha Kumbh into an arena for corruption instead of a religious event.”
Akhilesh said that if the BJP talks about ‘One Nation, One Election’, then it should conduct elections in UP in a single phase and at least adopt the electoral standards of its friendly countries.
He said that the BJP government is not only incompetent, but also corrupt and dishonest.
He said that when the SP was in power, Kumbh was also held, but then the arrangements were better and the devotees did not face any kind of trouble. He said that the public is fed up with the false promises and corruption of the BJP government.
The SP chief said, “The public will teach this government a lesson in the assembly elections to be held in 2027. The SP will continue to raise the voice of the people and keep exposing the failures of the BJP government.”
