Terming the tragedy at the Baba Raqghav Das Medical college at Gorakhpur as `heinous crime’’ the senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the incident.
“The death of over 70 children in few days is not an accident due to the disruption in supply of the oxygen, it’s a cold blooded murder and heinous crime. The incident merits enquiry by the CBI as it has occurred in the lok Sabha constituency of Gorakhpur represented by the chief minister Yogi Adityanath’’, said Azam Khan in Rampur on Monday while addressing a party meeting.
“UP government is trying to cover up by painting the death of children as mere incident. It’s a very serious crime and those responsible for the death of the children be tried under the penal provisions of the Indian penal code’’, said Azam Khan.
Meanwhile the SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday visited the BRD medical college at Gorakhpur on Monday. He visited the pediatric ward and met the doctors and the parents and enquired about the facilities in the hospital given to the patients.
later talking to the media Akhilesh Yadav targeted the BJP government saying `` had the government responded earlier then the precious lives could have been saved. He said the Samajwadi party is against politicizing the trage3dy at Gorakhpur and asked all the political parties to refrain from making political capital out of the issue.
``There should be no politics over the death of innocent children. Whosoever is responsible for the tragedy be it the doctors or anybody else must be brought to justice’’, said Akhilesh Yadav.
Akhilesh Yadav also accused the Yogi Adityanath government of indulging in political vendetta. ``There should be a limit to political vendetta. I am at my at wits end to know as to what the government wants to achieve by stopping the payment of the firm supervising the job of health information system’’. Akhilesh Yadav also visited the families of the victims in Gorakhpur.
Akhilesh Yadav also took to the Tweeter saying `` the government is responsible for the tragic death for children due to the disruption in supply of the oxygen and the government must pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to the parents of the children ‘’.
In another Tweet Akhilesh regretted that the medical records of the pediatric ward are being manipulated and the parents were forced to leave the hospital after the death of the children without the post mortem of the dead body