BBC says 82 people died in Mahakumbh stampede, Akhilesh Yadav trains guns on UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of lying about the death toll in the January 29 Maha Kumbh stampede and said that those who provide “false statistics” are not worthy of public trust.

Yadav made the remarks in a post on X, citing a BBC report which claimed that 82 people died in the stampede. The toll is significantly higher than the official figure of 37.