Sunstroke deaths: Politics prevailed over people’s convenience, says Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut on Monday blamed the Maharashtra authorities for the loss of life of eleven human beings because of sunstroke after attending an award feature and claimed politics prevailed over the benefit of human beings.
The `Maharashtra Bhushan’ award occasion in Navi Mumbai on Sunday grew to become tragic with the loss of life of at the least eleven human beings because of sunstroke because the feature, attended through lakhs, turned into held in an open floor in Kharghar vicinity of Raigad district neighbouring Mumbai.
The feature turned into attended through Union Home Minister Amit Shah who conferred the award on non secular chief and social reformer Appasaheb Dharmadhikari.
Speaking to journalists here, Raut stated, “The Maharashtra Bhushan award feature might have been held withinside the evening, however Union minister Amit Shah had no unfastened time. Thus, the programme turned into held in the course of the day time and those were given uncovered to the sizzling warmness and sunlight.”
“Politics at the back of the award prevailed over human beings’s convenience,” the Rajya Sabha member stated. He stated each kingdom authorities has its personal specialists and advisers who should have knowledgeable the officers approximately now no longer retaining this kind of massive amassing in the course of the day time. There have to had been a few information implemented on how lengthy the programme have to be stretched, he stated.
“The programme were given stretched too lengthy and those fell sick. A few of them even died due to it. The individuals who attended the occasion had come for Appasaheb Dharmadhikari and now no longer for some other flesh presser gift at the stage,” Raut stated.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson similarly stated there had been comparable incidents withinside the beyond and the kingdom have to have learnt a few training from them earlier than setting up such events.
The Maharashtra Bhushan is the kingdom’s maximum civilian award given to human beings from one-of-a-kind walks of lifestyles to comprehend their contribution in the direction of the welfare of society.
Lakhs of human beings had come for the occasion hung on Sunday. The 306-acre floor, wherein the feature turned into held, turned into filled with human beings.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputy Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Kapil Patil had been gift at the occasion.
Dharmadhikari has a huge following withinside the kingdom because of his tree plantation drives, blood donation and clinical camps in addition to de-dependancy paintings in tribal areas.
