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Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) ordered a thorough inspection of infrastructure successful each sports complexes crossed the State aft a inferior national-level subordinate and different teen died successful abstracted incidents of rusted handbasket poles collapsing connected them.
Hardik and Aman are some residents of Rohtak. While Hardik died astatine Rohtak’s Lakhan Majra sports stadium connected November 25, Aman had suffered fatal injuries astatine a sports crushed wrong a schoolhouse successful Bahadurgarh connected November 23. Aman died a time aboriginal during treatment.
Mr. Saini expressed condolences implicit the deaths and announced ₹5 lakh arsenic fiscal assistance to the families of each of the deceased, a connection read.
Several Opposition leaders, including Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) visited the families of the teenagers.
Mr. Mann, who on with Haryana Aam Aadmi Party president Sushil Gupta, visited Hardik’s household successful Lakhan Majra, demanded that the Union Sports Ministry should reappraisal the facilities astatine each sports complexes crossed the state and code the infrastructure shortage.
Saying that sportspersons were successful a authorities of daze aft the duplicate incidents, Mr. Mann said the poles fell due to the fact that they were built with sub-standard worldly and asked who should beryllium held liable for it. “Advertisements are placed to beforehand sports, but volition specified incidents promote the budding sportspersons?,” helium asked.
Blaming the deaths connected “criminal negligence of the government”, Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda, demanded occupation and fiscal assistance to the adjacent of the kin of the deceased and the registration of a constabulary lawsuit against the officials liable for the attraction of the stadiums. He besides sought enactment against the officials acrophobic for failing to utilise ₹18 lakh released by him from his MP money 3 years agone for the Lakhan Majra stadium.
Mr. Hooda enactment distant the demands aft gathering the families of the hoops players to explicit his condolences, saying that demands were based connected the sentiments of the 2 families, and the section residents.
“This is sheer injustice. These 2 players person not died successful a roadworthy accident, alternatively they person mislaid their lives during signifier owed to mediocre infrastructure. This is the transgression negligence connected the portion of the government. There are media reports astir authorities offering Rs.5 lakh ex-gratia. I wholly cull it,” said Mr. Hooda, talking to the media persons.
Blaming the authorities for neglecting the sports infrastructure successful the State, Mr. Hooda claimed that 481 Khel Stadiums were constructed during the ten-year Congress rule, but the BJP neither released immoderate funds for their attraction during the past eleven years nor constructed caller stadiums. “Haryana, which is the excavation of sports, has been fixed lone ₹80 crore retired of the ₹3,500 crore sports fund by the Government of India. This is an insult to the players and medals of our state. It is injustice to springiness the slightest fund from the country’s sports fund to the State that wins much than 50% of the medals successful planetary competitions,” said Mr. Hooda, blaming it for the alleged mediocre authorities of sports infrastructure successful Haryana.
Indian National Lok Dal president Abhay Singh Chautala demanded a high-level probe into the incidental aft gathering the household of Hardik.
Haryana Sports Minister Gaurav Gautam excessively visited the household and assured that justness would beryllium ensured successful each circumstance. He said that specified negligence would surely beryllium answered for.
