On Wednesday, a video was doing the rounds on social media which showed rows of funeral pyres burning in already overburdened crematorium in Uttar Pradesh’s lucknow.
Lucknow| On Wednesday, a video was doing the rounds on social media which showed rows of funeral pyres burning in already overburdened crematorium in Uttar Pradesh’s lucknow. The video was shared by many social media users to narrate the ordeal caused by the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. As the video went viral, many criticised the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to contain the virus as well as for under reporting the deaths caused by it.
Visuals of cremation ground at Bhaisakund near Gomti river bank in #Lucknow #COVIDSecondWave #COVID19India pic.twitter.com/P3T5oVSWsk
— Arvind Chauhan (@arvindcTOI) April 14, 2021
However, according to various Twitter users and accounts on social media, local authorities in Lucknow on Thursday set up tin sheets to cover the Bhainsakund crematorium ground in Lucknow, allegedly to avoid people from clicking pictures and recording videos of pyres being burnt, after the video went viral on Wednesday.
Tin sheets are being set up as a cover to prevent people taking pictures at Bhainsakund cremation site in Lucknow. Yesterday the videos and pictures of burning pyres at Bhainsakund had created a furore. pic.twitter.com/1RWlnYDxo9
— हैदर حیدر Haidar Naqvi (@haidarpur) April 15, 2021
Earlier, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation had on Wednesday increased the number of pyre platforms after several complaints of long waiting queues for cremation of the deceased came up.
The UP government, in its defense, had said that only those deaths which were registered with the CMO (Chief Medical Officer) are officially presented and people belonging to other cities and districts who died in Lucknow are also being cremated here.
However, the new video that surfaced on Thursday angered the residents of Lucknow city who took to social media to express their dismay at the administration.
Writer and storyteller Himanshu Bajpai expressed his anguish on Facebook. “As the cremation video went viral, the authorities covered the entire cremation ground with blue tin sheets. These sheets have fallen on your intelligence and conscience! You destroyed Lucknow. Shame,” Mr Bajpai wrote in Hindi.
Retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh also shared the video taking swipe at the administration for this move. “Hide the funeral pyre, but how will you hide your face? Also, how will you cover the ground from above? Someone is watching from there too,” Mr Singh said in his tweet.
चिताओं को तो छुपा लो साहब, लेकिन मुँह कैसे छुपाओगे l
और ऊपर से कैसे ढांपोगे, वहाँ से भी कोई देख रहा है! pic.twitter.com/8tcRfbaLE4
— Surya Pratap Singh IAS Rtd. (@suryapsingh_IAS) April 15, 2021
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