Cars still for hours, Pellegrini cannot get to the river
Colossal traffic jams and highways blocked, with also 30 kilometers, closed railway station and trains in tilt for the impossibility of managing the millions of people who crowd in the area: this is what the newspaper The Hindu da Prayagraj reports, the Indian city stormed by the devotees who intend to participate in the Maha Kumbh Mela, the crowded Hindu pilgrimage along the banks of the Gange river.
Akilesh Yadav, president of the Socialist Party Samajwadi Party, reported the chaos on X, documenting how all the access roads towards the pilgrimage site were blocked, and appealed to the government of the Uttar Pradesh asking to prepare special measures to face to the inconvenience. “The pilgrims are experiencing a inhuman situation, imprisoned for half days in road traffic jams from which they cannot escape, even if they decide to reverse the direction and go back”.
The Hindu writes that the manager of the traffic police Kuldeep Singh confirmed the criticality of the situation, adding that for days the crowds have not mentioned no one to diminish and that the parking lots close to the diving site remain empty: “The pilgrims”, revealed, ” Stop tens of kilometers away, they cannot reach them “. According to the organizers, from the beginning of the pilgrimage, on January 13, more than 142 million devotees have already wet in the gange.
