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Karnataka Home Minister On Bengaluru Tragedy: “It Was Sad”

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Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara visited the place where the stampede took place by the Chinnaswamy stadium, on Wednesday

A stampede caused the death of about 11 people and injured more than 60 others. This took place outside the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru on 4th April, a Wednesday. The state government planned a victory parade for RCB after they won the IPL for the first time this year.

Videos and pictures from the site showed ambulances taking injured people to hospitals and cops also helped.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara visited the place where the stampede took place by the Chinnaswamy stadium. He said that there will be a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). And he said that this would help control and maneuver major events and gatherings.

Karnataka Home Minister Speaks On Incident

He said, “The CM has already announced a magisterial inquiry into the incident. I came here to see the situation at the gates where the stampede occurred.”

Parameshwara gave assurance that the Home Department will ensure implementation of the new SOP. He stated that the framework of the police department’s directives will guide future events.

“We will make a new SOP. We will give some instructions. Such incidents should never happen. Innocent deaths should not happen. It hurts to see all this. It was sad when I saw it in the morgue yesterday. People aged 20-25 years have lost their lives when they came to celebrate happily. No one could have predicted all this,” he added.

Estimated Numbers Of Bengaluru Crowd At Stadium

The Home Minister earlier said, “We estimated that 1 lakh people were outside Vidhan Soudha and 25,000 outside the stadium. We did not expect that 2.5 lakh people would come. 8.70 lakh Metro tickets were sold. Assuming most were cricket fans, 8 lakh people showed up. There has been no previous instance of so many people gathering for cricket. It would have been a record had it gone well. I’ve spoken to RCB and spoken to the KSCA – they’ve told us their opinion.”

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced her shocking resignation, she will be vacating the chair in February

Sydney: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that she would be resigning next month.

“For me it’s time,” she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party. “I just don’t have enough in the tank for another four years.”

Ardern, who won a resounding electoral victory for her center-left Labor Party three years after being elected prime minister in a coalition government in 2017, has seen both her party and her personal popularity decline in recent polls.

She stated during Labour’s annual caucus retreat that she had hoped to find the energy to continue as leader during the break, “but I have not been able to do that,” in her first public appearance since the start of the summer session in parliament a month ago.

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Ardern said the next general election will be held on Saturday, October 14 and she would continue as an electorate MP until then.

“I am not leaving, because I believe we cannot win the next election, but because I believe we can and will,” she said.

The Labor caucus would vote on a new leader on January 22, according to Ardern, who also stated that her departure would be effective no later than February 7.

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said he would not be putting his name forward.

Ardern said there was no secret behind her resignation.

“I am human. We give as much as we can for as long as we can and then it’s time. And for me, it’s time.

“I am leaving because with such a privileged job comes a big responsibility. The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead — and also when you’re not.”

 

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