Waited for 4 hours to file FIR: 15-year-old stampede victim's family
Bengaluru (PTI): Family of Divyanshi, a 15-year-old girl, who died in the stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru on Wednesday evening, said they had to wait nearly four hours before an FIR could be filed.
Relatives gathered at the home of the grieving family in Bengaluru's Yelahanka as the teen's body was taken for last rites.
Her grieving father, Shivakumar, recounted how his daughter fell after being pushed at Gate Number 15. His wife and sister-in-law were also present then, he added.
"They (officials) came and visited (afterwards), but no proper support was provided. They didn't even give proper first aid. My wife said she was begging for some support. Finally, my daughter was taken in an auto, with no support from the police. Even to file an FIR, we had to wait four hours," Shivakumar said.
The girl's body has been taken to Andhra Pradesh for the last rites and cremation, he added.
He also said the government should take total responsibility.
"Why didn't they make proper arrangements? Go and see Mysore Palace Road -- for political events, they arrange everything. For this celebration, they should have had proper planning. Intelligence should have been there," he added.
Meanwhile, the mortal remains of Kamatchi Devi, a 28-year-old software engineer, who died too in the stampede, was taken to her hometown Mayiladumparai in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu for the last rites on Thursday.
Devi, who was working in Bengaluru, had gone to celebrate Royal Challengers Bangalore's IPL victory at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. She was caught in the crowd surge and died.
Her mortal remains were taken to Vivekananda School in Mayiladumparai, where relatives, friends, and local residents gathered to pay their last respects.
Late last night, after visiting the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital and Vydehi Super Speciality Hospital, where most of the injured were admitted, Karnataka's Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, told the reporters gathered that the "unexpected tragedy" shouldn't have happened.
Stating that most of the deceased are youth, including men and women, with several of them being students, the CM said the government has announced Rs 10 lakh compensation to the kin of each deceased.
He also said the injured will be provided free treatment.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
