
{"id":2705,"date":"2025-02-01T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:12:31","slug":"ruckus-in-lok-sabha-as-akhilesh-yadav-other-opposition-mps-protest-over-maha-kumbh-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/ruckus-in-lok-sabha-as-akhilesh-yadav-other-opposition-mps-protest-over-maha-kumbh-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruckus In Lok Sabha As Akhilesh Yadav, Other Opposition MPs Protest Over Maha Kumbh Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>The presentation of Union Budget 2025 began on a stormy note in Parliament as several opposition leaders, led by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, staged a walkout over the Maha Kumbh stampede issue. However, they soon returned, calling the move a &#8220;symbolic walkout.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><small class=\"brtagPara\">\u00a0<\/small><\/div>\n<div>As soon as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her Budget speech, Akhilesh Yadav and his party MPs started raising slogans, demanding a discussion on the Maha Kumbh stampede in which 30 pilgrims were killed. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla informed the opposition parties and Akhilesh Yadav that they will be given a chance to discuss their issues. He also urged Akhilesh Yadav to maintain decorum in the Parliament. &#8220;This has never happened before during a budget speech. This is not acceptable.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/img\/article\/2025-02\/01\/full\/1738391761-6697.jpg?im=FitAndFill=(826,465)\" alt=\"Akhilesh Yadav\" width=\"1114\" height=\"627\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\">A pre-dawn stampede at Maha Kumbh during Mauni Amavasya on January 29 left nearly 30 people dead and 60 injured, the police said on January 31.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\">The Samajwadi Party demanded that the government release the list of people who lost their lives in the Maha Kumbh stampede, according to a report by <em>ANI<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4\" class=\"story_para_4\">Before presenting her eighth budget, Sitharaman met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan before heading to Parliament. President Murmu offered \u2018dahi-chini\u2019 (curd-sugar), considered auspicious, to Sitharaman before she left for Parliament to present the Union Budget<\/p>\n<div>On Friday, as the Budget session commenced, Akhilesh Yadav shifted the focus to the Maha Kumbh tragedy, which claimed the lives of 30 people and left 60 others injured. &#8220;Budget will be discussed later, in this session, and today we need to talk about peace for those who lost their lives in Kumbh,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2025\/02\/Akhilesh-Yadav.jpg?w=414\" alt=\"Oppn targets Budget: 'Band-aid for bullet wounds', aimed at Bihar polls,  offers nothing for poor, jobless | India News - The Indian Express\" width=\"1130\" height=\"633\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><small class=\"brtag\"><strong>Akhilesh Yadav on Maha Kumbh stampede<\/strong><\/small><\/h2>\n<div>Akhilesh Yadav also slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, stating, &#8220;The government is hiding the number of people who died in Kumbh as they don&#8217;t want to pay the compensation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>He called for transparency and demanded accountability from the Uttar Pradesh administration, further urging the government to release a public list of people who died. &#8220;The families of the deceased must be informed at the earliest, and a list of all those who lost their lives should be made public&#8230; It&#8217;s the government&#8217;s mistake. It&#8217;s still hiding things&#8221;, he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>For More News Update, Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/\">Read Now News<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentation of Union Budget 2025 began on a stormy note in Parliament as several opposition leaders, led by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, staged a walkout over the Maha Kumbh stampede issue. However, they soon returned, calling the move a &#8220;symbolic walkout.&#8221; \u00a0 As soon as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her Budget speech, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-blog","category-home","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readnownews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}