Karnataka Assembly: CM Siddaramaiah Highlights 20 Stampedes in BJP-ruled States

Fast Summary

• Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah addressed the Legislative Assembly on August 22, 2025, discussing the stampede near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4, which claimed 11 lives.
• The CM attributed the incident to “mass hysteria” following RCB’s victory in an IPL match, which was celebrated as a source of pride for Bengaluru.
• Siddaramaiah referred to several historic stampedes in BJP-ruled states over past years and provided a list detailing incidents such as:

– Naina Devi temple stampede (2008) in Himachal Pradesh.
– Jodhpur stampede (2008), killing over 250 people.
– Ratangarh temple tragedy (2013), Prayagraj Kumbh Mela (2021), Haridwar incident (2021), Sehore tragedy in Madhya Pradesh (2023), Hathras stampede (UP, killing over 121 people in 2024).

• He also mentioned other notable tragedies like Gujarat’s Morbi bridge collapse of October 2022 that accounted for around 135 fatalities.
• In his remarks reflecting personal grief, Siddaramaiah emphasized he had never encountered such an event during his extensive political tenure spanning *42-year track-system outlining…….inter-actpoint shared indivisible pathwaysletseng Noise+verbositynon-speculations€¦

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