Bengaluru stampede: Police flagged lack of time to prepare and make security arrangements, document shows
Even as a blame game has broken out between the police and the State Government over mishaps during Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) victory celebrations, it has now emerged that the Vidhana Soudha security had flagged concerns of overcrowding, lack of time and shortage of security personnel for the felicitation for the team on the grand steps of Vidhana Soudha. This letter is the only document that shows the State Government overruled concerns raised by the Bengaluru City Police and went ahead with RCB victory celebrations. While it is true that no untoward incidents happened at the Vidhana Soudha event, police have argued an open-air event at the administrative nerve centre of the state, coupled with a unilateral announcement by RCB of a victory parade on June 4 morning, brought lakhs to the street, eventually leading to a stampede at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
In 2026, NDA will form governments in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (June 8, 2025) asserted that the NDA would form governments in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing party office bearers, he hailed Madurai as a city of ‘Parivartan’ and said his party’s Karyakarta Sammelan (workers meet) would lead to change as well, of dislodging DMK from power. He said that in the 2026 Assembly election, the BJP-AIADMK will form the NDA Government in Tamil Nadu and will defeat DMK in the 2026 polls. “The DMK is a 100% failure government,” he said. “In 2026, in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, the NDA will form governments.” Mr. Shah, before addressing the state, district and mandal level office bearers, chaired the meeting of the state core committee of the Tamil Nadu BJP. Ahead of leading the core panel parleys, he worshipped at the Madurai Meenakshi temple.
