TVK Karur Stampede: How tragedy broke out and who is responsible? 'Overcrowding, Delay' - What We Know So far

At least 36 people, including eight children, were killed and more than 40 people sustained injuries after a bump-like situation on Saturday (27 Septmber 27) evening at Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) head and actor Vijay’s public meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Karur. The toll was confirmed by the Minister of State Health, Ma Subramanian. Several faint during the incident were ambulances called, and police were sought when tragedy hit the rally where people gathered in hundreds. What caused TVK Karur ‘Stampede’? Sources told Ani that ‘overpopulation’ led to the tragedy on the venue. Meanwhile, police resources told the Hindustan Times that the Karur rally had attracted a crowd far above the initial estimates. Permissions were granted for about 30,000 participants. However, the local reports suggested that nearly 60,000 people gathered for the rally, many on foot, tractors and buses, the HT report claimed. At the crowded Karur rally, Vijay offered water bottles to cadres. “The police please help,” the TVK chief said as a child that he went missing, and several people among the crowd fainted. Karur tragedy: But who is responsible for chaos and panic during Vijay’s rally in Tamil Nadu? Although an investigation still has to be started in the Stampede-like incident at TVK’s Karur rally, political parties have trained guns on each other to further promote the speculation about the main reason behind the tragedy. Here’s what they said: 1. ‘Organizers responsible, Rally,’ DMK spokeswoman Saravanan Annadurai said the organizers of the TVC’s Karur Rally are responsible for the ‘Stampede’. He said the rally was delayed by ‘six hours’. He said the rally “was deliberately delayed because they wanted to grab some eyeballs with fancy drone shots to show that so many people came for the rally, and it has now killed 31 people. Who will be liable for this? This is all a problem of Vijay,” Saravanan Annadurai said. 2.. No ‘proper arrangements’ Meanwhile, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla Karur tragedy called a ‘man-made criminal disaster’. He held both the DMK government in Tamil Nadu and actor Vijay’s party responsible for the accident that killed 36 people on Saturday. “Both the DMK government, which should have made the right arrangements and is not clearly responsible, but also Mr. Vijay and his party are responsible. Both elements are the two sides of the same coin, they do not appreciate people, they only appreciate their own popularity and” parivar “and therefore people are treated in this way,” Poonawalla said. TVK Karur Stampede: Govt Forms Panel to start the investigation into the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin, on Saturday, announced on Saturday that a commission of inquiry led by Justice Aruna Jagadesan will investigate the deadly incident “to conduct a thorough investigation and submit a report to the government, an investigation of one members will immediately under the CM,” “Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry has sought a report on the stamped members of the Tamil Nadu government. TVK leader, also a top film star.