Social media is full of reels showing people damaging trains, breaking windows in a desperate bid to get into trains going to Prayagraj. There has been a stampede at Delhi Railway Station leaving 18 (official figure) dead. All this is because the government of India left no stone unturned to promote Kumbh as a mega event. Faces of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath are plastered in full page advertisements in leading newspapers exhorting the gullible janata to attend this once in 144 years celestial spiritual festival. Instead of promoting scientific temper as mandated by the Constitution, the government is promoting mumbo jumbo. On top of that, it does not have systems in place to manage the crowds that have come to the event to get emancipated from the cycle of life and death. The government is solely to blame for these unfortunate and untimely deaths. Avoidable fatalities are being touted as attainment of moksha by the sarkar and it's assorted 'dhongi babas'. Shame on the BJP for putting a positive spin to even murder.
