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Maharashtra government has formed a one-member committee to investigate the case (File) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar said on Friday that the Maharashtra government led by Eknath Shinde was solely responsible for the deaths of 13 people in Kharghar and reiterated his demand for a judicial inquiry into the deaths of people during or after Maharashtra Bhushan. awards ceremony, adding that "the real facts have to come out. "It was the 100% responsibility of the state government to organize the event, keeping the elections in mind. A sitting judge must investigate this incident and the real facts must come out," Sharad Pawar told the organizing meeting of the polls in BMC.
Earlier in the day, former Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray demanded the resignation of CM Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis.
Some 13 people who attended the open-air Maharashtra Bhushan award ceremony on Sunday at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, died of heat stroke.
Uddhav Thackeray said that the organizers of the event should be punished as the arrangements were not up to par.
Speaking to the media, Uddhav Thackeray said: "Those who organized this event must be punished. The Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra must take responsibility and resign from their posts. It is not that the Maharashtra Bhushan ceremony has been performed for the first time". time, it has happened many times before. If they were going to put on such a big event, then the arrangements should have been on this level."
Earlier in the day, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Ajit Pawar, also wrote a letter to Governor Ramesh Bais demanding an investigation into the incident and urged that the matter be looked into by a retired judge.
The Maharashtra government announced on Thursday that it had formed a one-member committee to investigate the case. The committee headed by the additional chief secretary of the Department of Revenue will report within a month. The committee will also make recommendations to the government on things to consider in the future when planning such events.
Earlier, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde declared Rs 5 lakh each as compensation for the relatives of the dead adding that his government will bear the medical expenses of those still undergoing treatment at the hospital.
The participants, who suffered from heat stroke during the ceremony, were admitted to the Tata Hospital in Kharghar.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, former Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray, his son Aditya Thackeray and NCP leader Ajit Pawar visited those still being treated at the hospital.
The Maharashtra Bhushan award ceremony was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, CM Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis.
