As tens of millions of devotees proceed to attend the Mahakumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, site visitors within the space stays disrupted, inflicting inconvenience to guests. A brand new video exhibiting a unending site visitors jam on the Sangam street, crawling at a snail’s tempo amid police barricades arrange for the orderly motion of pilgrims, is doing rounds on social media. A number of posts said that the site visitors jam was between 200-300 km lengthy.
After the video was shared extensively, a number of folks raised issues concerning the administration of the world’s largest non secular and religious congregation by the Yogi Adityanath-led authorities.
On Monday, Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav criticised the Uttar Pradesh Authorities over the site visitors subject, claiming it has led to a scarcity of important commodities and inconvenienced devotees visiting Mahakumbh.
“Because of the site visitors jams all over the place in Prayagraj, neither meals grains, greens, spices can be found nor medicines, petrol-diesel. On account of this, the situation of crores of hungry, thirsty, drained and exhausted devotees caught in Prayagraj and Maha Kumbh premises and on the roads resulting in Prayagraj is getting worse each hour. It is a very critical scenario,” Yadav mentioned in a publish, loosely translated from Hindi, on X.
Sharing the video, he wrote, “Identical to in states, when the constitutional system fails, the command is given to another person, equally, seeing the chaos in Maha Kumbh, a succesful particular person needs to be given the command of governance. Incompetent folks can unfold false propaganda, not true system,” he added.
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प्रयागराज महाकुंभ में फँसे करोड़ों श्रद्धालुओं के लिए तुरंत आपातकालीन व्यवस्था की जाए। हर तरफ़ से जाम में भूखे, प्यासे, बेहाल और थके तीर्थयात्रियों को मानवीय दृष्टि से देखा जाए। आम श्रद्धालु क्या इंसान नहीं है?
प्रयागराज में प्रवेश के लिए लखनऊ की तरफ़ 30 किमी पहले से ही नवाबगंज… pic.twitter.com/1JXmzgDEGI
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) February 9, 2025
A number of social media customers reacted to the viral video with one saying, “Deva street Lucknow have to be transformed into double lane..Day by day accident occuring and site visitors jams of hours.”
Sharing a video of the site visitors jam, one other consumer wrote, “Visitors Jam of 15 KM earlier than Jabalpur …nonetheless 400 KM to prayagraj. Please learn site visitors scenario earlier than coming to Mahakumbh!”
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Visitors Jam of 15 KM earlier than Jabalpur …nonetheless 400 KM to prayagraj. Please learn site visitors scenario earlier than coming to Mahakumbh! #MahaKumbh2025 #mahakumbh #MahaKumbhMela2025 @myogiadityanath @yadavakhilesh #kumbhamela #kumbh pic.twitter.com/BKmJ3HNIx7
— Nitun Kumar (@dash_nitun) February 9, 2025
In line with information company PTI, 46.19 lakh folks took a shower in Sangam till 8 am on Monday. PTI mentioned about 44 crore folks have taken a dip within the Sangam because the starting of the Mahakumbh final month.
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