A large crowd gathered on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday, June 4, to have a good time Royal Challengers Bengaluru‘s (RCB) triumph within the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025). The Rajat Patidar-led facet defeated Punjab Kings by six runs on Tuesday on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to win their maiden IPL title. Nonetheless, the celebrations had been dampened by a horrific tragedy as 11 individuals misplaced their lives and nearly 50 had been injured when a stampede broke out.
As per the authorities, most people who died had been younger individuals, each women and men, and a number of other amongst them had been college students. The honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, stated that the M Chinnaswamy Stadium has a capability of 35,000 individuals, however 2-3 lakh gathered. In the meantime, the police talked about that round 50,000 individuals had gathered inside a 1-km radius of the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Many tried to push by gates or climb over boundaries to catch a glimpse of the gamers.
Former India cricketer Madan Lal slammed the RCB administration, asking what was the need behind organising a victory parade in Bengaluru on Wednesday after they celebrated the triumph simply the earlier night time in Ahmedabad.
“You celebrated in Ahmedabad the earlier night time. What was the push to arrange a grand occasion in Bengaluru the following day? Eleven lives had been misplaced unnecessarily,” Madan Lal was quoted as saying by Herald Goa.
We didn’t make any request concerning the celebration to RCB and KSCA: CM Siddharamaiah
The celebrations contained in the stadium got here to an finish in simply 20 minutes after the organisers had been knowledgeable of the unlucky incident unfolding outdoors. In the meantime. CM Siddaramaiah stated that the federal government had no function in organising the occasion and talked about that it was completed by RCB and the Karnataka State Cricket Affiliation.
“It’s not us. We didn’t make any request concerning the celebration to RCB and KSCA. They organised this. We felt that the federal government ought to felicitate. Simply because it was a Bengaluru crew, we felt that we needs to be part of the celebration. That’s all. We didn’t ask that we might do that nevertheless it’s RCB and KSCA who introduced the crew to Bengaluru for celebrations,” he stated whereas chatting with reporters.
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