Rahul Gandhi meets families of Hathras stampede victims

Aligarh: Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, left for Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district on Friday morning to meet with the families of those killed in the stampede earlier this week.

Rahul Gandhi went to the Navipur Khurd and Pilakhna villages in Aligarh. He met the families of Shanti Devi and Manju Devi, who died in the stampede. They later told the media that Rahul Gandhi assured them of financial help.

121 people – mostly women – died in the stampede. The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested six members of the panel that organised the religious event in honour of preacher Bhole Baba.