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A delegation of MPs from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), probing the September 27 Karur stampede that claimed 41 lives, inspected the tract of the incidental astatine Velusamypuram connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025). They besides visited the Karur Government Medical College Hospital and interacted with those injured successful the stampede.
The eight-member fact-finding team is led by MP and histrion Hema Malini, and includes erstwhile Union Minister Anurag Thakur, MPs Tejasvi Surya, Brij Lal, Aparajita Sarangi, Rekha Sharma, Shrikant Shinde of the Shiv Sena, and Putta Mahesh Kumar of the Telugu Desam Party.
Speaking to reporters astatine the hospital, Ms. Malini described the incidental arsenic “deeply saddening.” “The larger question is: who is liable for this tragedy? Who organised it, and however did the medication springiness support for specified a gathering astatine this location?” she asked.
She noted that the venue could not clasp adjacent a tiny fig of people, but support had allegedly been granted for tens of thousands. “In the past of politics, specified a calamity has not happened before,” she said, adding that accountability indispensable beryllium fixed some connected the organisers and the administration.
Mr. Thakur said the squad had prepared a database of questions to beryllium posed to some the organisers and officials. “Lives person been lost. A escaped and just enquiry by a sitting Supreme Court justice is indispensable to place the lapses of the officials and the organisers,” helium said. He added that the territory medication would beryllium asked to supply a elaborate reply wrong a week.
Mr. Thakur besides criticised the State authorities for its handling of the situation. “What was the constabulary section doing? What was the quality doing? The ruling enactment indispensable answer,” helium said.
“When we reached the spot, we could not incorporate ourselves. Small children were among those killed; they had simply travel to spot an actor. The work of preventing this lies with the organisers and the administration,” Ms. Malini further said.
The delegation volition taxable its findings to the BJP cardinal leadership.
The members arrived astatine Coimbatore airdrome connected Tuesday morning. Speaking to the media then, Ms. Malini said the members would sojourn the homes of each 41 radical who were killed successful the stampede, to deterimine the events that led to the incident. Mr. Thakur said the Karur calamity held a acquisition for all, and that steps should beryllium taken to forestall its recurrence.
