Politics started in the election bound Madhya Pradesh over the corpses a day after the gruesome stampede incident at Ratangarh Temple in Datia district, where over 115 persons were reported dead on Sunday.
Blame game started soon after the incident and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition Congress besides smaller parties in the State started trading charges on each other. The Opposition holding State Government and administration responsible for the incident started demanding Chief Minister’s resignation while the ruling party leveled allegations that the Opposition is doing politics over the sensitive issue.
Senior Congress leaders from the State former Chief Minister and Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, Union Ministers from the State Kamalnath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president and MP Kantilal Bhuria and leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh besides central leaders of the party including Ajay Maken and Kapil Sibal started holding State Government responsible for the fiasco to control the mob that resulted in the tragedy and demanded resignation of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on moral grounds. CPM also joined the fray with Congress and demanded scalp of the Chief Minister.
While the front from the ruling side was led by Shivraj Singh and supported by national vice presidents Prabhat Jha and Uma Bharti besides national spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
Jha said, “We are all sad over the tragedy but should not do politics over it. My suggestion to the Congress friends that instead of doing politics over corpses all should involve in relief and rescue work that is need of the hour, politics could be done later.”