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Days aft a stampede astatine actor-politician Vijay’s rally successful Karur, which claimed 41 lives, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced connected Monday (September 29, 2025) that rules and guidelines would beryllium framed for nationalist events held by governmental parties and different organisations.
Once the Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry submits its report, consultations volition beryllium held with each governmental parties and different organisations to framework the rules and guidelines, helium said.
In a recorded video clip posted connected his societal media handle, Mr. Stalin said: “It is our corporate work to framework rules and guidelines to beryllium followed by governmental parties and different organisations erstwhile they organise specified events. So, I guarantee you that these rules and guidelines volition beryllium framed erstwhile the study from the Commission of Inquiry is received and aft consultations are held with each governmental parties and organisations. I anticipation everyone volition widen their practice successful this regard.”
“I guarantee you that the government’s people of enactment volition beryllium connected the study submitted by the Commission,” helium added.
Claims connected societal media
Referring to unverified claims and speculations circulating connected societal media successful transportation with the Karur tragedy, Mr. Stalin advised radical to workout restraint and refrain from making irresponsible oregon malicious comments. “I person been noticing the rumours and fake quality being dispersed by immoderate radical connected societal media. No governmental person would ever privation for their enactment cadre oregon guiltless radical to suffer their lives. Regardless of which enactment the deceased belonged to, arsenic acold arsenic I americium concerned, they are Tamils. So, I impulse everyone to debar making irresponsible and malicious comments.”
Contending that quality lives are supra each else, Mr. Stalin, who is besides the president of the DMK, said: “Let america acceptable speech our governmental positions, differing ideologies, and idiosyncratic enmities. I entreaty to everyone to deliberation astir the payment of the people. Tamil Nadu has been a pioneer connected assorted fronts successful the country. It is our corporate work to forestall specified incidents from recurring.”
The Chief Minister further said: “We person mislaid 41 lives, including women and children. We person announced a solatium of ₹10 lakh and person been disbursing it. We are besides providing implicit aesculapian attraction to those injured successful the incident.”
The Karur stampede was a “major tragedy,” an “unprecedented tragedy,” and 1 that “should not recur,” Mr. Stalin said. Recalling his sojourn to a infirmary successful Karur, helium said helium inactive could not get implicit the incident, and that his bosom remained dense and anguished. Even aft issuing instructions to the territory medication to instrumentality contiguous action, Mr. Stalin said helium could not stay astatine location and truthful decided to permission for Karur.
