During festivals and auspicious days, many people throng temples, holy places and shrines to have darshan of God and offer their prayers. They are prepared to wait in queues for long hours for the split second darshan of the Lord inspite of mediocre arrangements at many places.
However during that time politicians, celebrities arrive as VIPs, which force authorities there stop the normal services to people, to please the powers. This result in queues coming to a standstill and new people adding to the existing queues leading to suffocation.
People in the meantime get restless and some younger lot try to use force to make their way. This cause lot of trouble and maximum to bore the brunt is small children, women and old people. This VIP competition during festive days is killing innocent people but VIPs don’t realise their mistake.
They are happy as long as they get the darshan. This is what led to innocents getting killed couple of days at Rajamundry during pushkarams.
Even earlier many precious lives were lost but VIPs, political parties and authorities will never learn their mistakes as they don’t want to.
Feb3, 1954-800 dead, 100 injured, Mahakumbh Mela
Aug 27, 2003-40dead, 125 injured-Nasik Godavari Kumbh Mela
Jan 26, 2005-350 dead, 200 injured, Mandirdevi,Satara, Maharashtra
Jul 12, 2008-6 dead, Puri Jagannath rathyatra
Aug 3, 2008-160 dead, 400 injured, Nainadevi, Himahcalpradesh (rumours about avalanches)
Sep 30, 2008-120 dead, Chamunda temple,Jodhpur
Mar 4, 2010-63 dead, Navratri celebrations, Pratapgarh, uP
Jan 14, 2011-106 dead, 100 injured, Sabarimala, Kerala
Mar 27, 2011-8 dead, 10 injured, Karila,MP
Nov 8, 2011-22 dead, Haridwar
Feb 8, 2013-136 dead, Mahakumbh Mela, Alahabad (fob collapse)
Oct 13, 2013-75 dead, 100 injured, Ratangarh temple, MP
Jul 14, 2015-25 dead, Rajamundry pushkar ghat,AP