Congress General Secretary (Organisation) and MP KC Venugopal on Tuesday inspected the spot in Karur where a stampede broke out during a public event of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay that claimed 41 lives.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi on Tuesday criticised Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay and his party functionaries over the Karur stampede that claimed more than 41 lives during a rally held by the TVK. She urged the party leadership to "take some onus and
BJP State President Nainar Nagendran, along with other party leaders, including K Annamalai, met an eight-member parliamentary committee appointed by BJP National President J.P. Nadda following their arrival in Coimbatore on Tuesday.
"An inquiry commission headed by a retired judge has been formed. If lapses are found, strict action will be taken against those responsible," Mahesh said while addressing the reporters on Tuesday.
The Karur city police have brought Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's (TVK) Karur West District Secretary, Mathiyazhagan, and Paun Raj, a Karur town functionary, to the hospital for a medical examination on Tuesday.
"...Let us first hear the views of the people who lost their family members, ask the local people, officials, get the feedback and then we will submit our report," Thakur, who is a part of the BJP-NDA delegation, told ANI.
Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde on Tuesday said that an eight-member NDA delegation will leave for Karur in Tamil Nadu today to investigate the circumstances surrounding the recent stampede during a Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) rally, which claimed over 40 lives.
Karur City Police have arrested Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's (TVK) Karur West District Secretary, Mathiyazhagan, in connection with the stampede during the party chief Vijay's rally, which claimed 41 lives, ADGP Davidson Devasirvatham told ANI.
The promotional event for Rishab Shetty's film 'Kantara: Chapter 1', scheduled in Chennai on September 30, has been cancelled due to the Karur stampede.
"There's no bad time for setting proper SOP for public matters, particularly where there will be huge public assemblies. We are probably too late. We should have a better way of public gathering management, not just in one state, but the entire country," Sitharaman said while addressing a
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday said that political parties and public organisations should frame rules on how public events must be organised responsibly in the future, in the wake of the Karur stampede, which he described as "a tragedy that should never happen again".
Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam on Monday filed a writ petition in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, pleading for the transfer of the probe into the Karur stampede from the State police to the Central Bureau of Investigation.