Bengaluru, June 5 || Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Shobha Karandlaje, on Thursday paid a visit to the Bowring Hospital and enquired about the health of the people injured in the stampede at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday, in which 11 people were killed during the victory celebrations of the RCB team.
Shobha has written a letter to the acting Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court with an urgent request for suo moto intervention and judicial enquiry into the stampede incident.
She stated, “This tragedy is not just a result of an accident – it is a consequence of systematic failure and the complete collapse of state responsibility. Only the timely intervention of this court can uphold justice and restore public faith in governance and the rule of law.”
"What is even more alarming is the public statement by the CM, wherein he stated that the state government is not responsible for the stampede or the resultant deaths, claiming that the government had only organised the event at Vidhana Soudha and not at the stadium," Shobha noted.
“This disowning of responsibility amounts to a blatant attempt at whitewashing the role of the government and shielding the officers responsible for this catastrophic mismanagement. It is evident that this is a cover-up intended to grant a clean chit to the very machinery that failed the people,” she claimed.