PM Modi was talking within the Lok Sabha when the Hathras tragedy occurred (File).
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi – in the course of a fierce assault on the Congress and the opposition in Parliament this night – broke off to tell the Home of a tragedy in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras.
Dozens, together with girls and kids, have been killed in a stampede at a prayer meet.
Mr Modi, who was preventing a vociferous battle with the opposition whereas talking on the Movement of Because of President Droupadi Murmu’s joint tackle to Parliament final week, paused and informed his fellow MPs of the tragedy. As he did so, the Lok Sabha, which seconds earlier had reverberated with the shrieks and screams and chants of opposition MPs concentrating on the PM fell fully silent.
“Within the midst of those discussions I’ve additionally been given unhappy information. It has come to my consideration that there have been many tragic deaths within the stampede in Hathras…” the Prime Minister stated.
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“I specific my condolences to those that misplaced their lives (and) hope for the speedy restoration of the injured,” he added, as murmurs broke from MPs making ready so as to add the Hathras stampede to their arsenal of weapons towards Mr Modi and his ruling BJP, which can also be in energy in Uttar Pradesh.
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, “There are stories of many individuals dying within the stampede in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. I specific my condolences to those that misplaced their lives on this accident. I want for the speedy restoration of all of the injured. The administration is engaged… pic.twitter.com/UasFmME0br
— ANI (@ANI) July 2, 2024
Mr Modi additionally stated senior central authorities officers had been instructed to contact their state counterparts to coordinate rescue and help efforts. “By means of this discussion board, I guarantee everybody that every one doable help will probably be supplied to the victims,” he stated. The PM’s workplace has introduced Rs 2 lakh compensation to every of the households of these killed and Rs 50,000 to every of these injured.
The Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji has introduced an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh from PMNRF for the subsequent of kin of every deceased within the mishap in Hathras. The injured could be given Rs. 50,000.
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) July 2, 2024
The Hathras Lok Sabha MP – the BJP’s Anoop Pradhan – stated he had spoken to district officers however declined to touch upon the variety of useless. The injured, he stated, have been being handled at hospitals.
Earlier than and after the Prime Minister’s point out of the Hathras stampede, the opposition threw a wall of noise – protests, slogans, and screams – at Mr Modi as he was talking.
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Such was the relentless sloganeering that Speaker Om Birla appeared to lose his mood on multiple event as he tried, with none success, to regulate the shrieking opposition.
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