While Gorakhpur is still coming to terms with the loss of over 60 infants, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the state authorities to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami in a “grand” way. In a communique issued late on Sunday to the Director General of Police (DGP) Sulkhan Singh, Adityanath said: “Krishna Janmashtami is an important festival and the police should organise it in a traditional and grand way.”
Adityanath said this year the festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna should be organised “with Indian traditions”. DGP Singh has written to all district police chiefs, superintendents of police in the Railways and commandants of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) to adhere to the instructions.
In the recent development in the Gorakhpur massacre, on Monday, the apex court on Monday declined to hear a plea requesting it to take suo motu cognizance of the Gorakhpur hospital deaths and institute a Special Investigation Team probe. The apex court asked the petitioner to move the Allahabad High Court.
Notably, on Sunday, hours after Adityanath’s visit to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College, along with Union Minister J P Nadda, Dr Kafeel Khan was removed as the Nodal Officer for the paediatrics department citing “negligence of duty”. Dr Bhupendra Sharma has been appointed as the in-charge of the ward where the deaths took place.
