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30 dead, 60 injured in Maha Kumbh stampede; Opposition blames VVIP culture

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has said that a court-monitored probe has been ordered into the Maha Kumbh stampede that claimed 30 lives on Wednesday. But the Opposition and a lot of people on social media are saying that it was because of the special treatment given to the VVIPs during the snaan that led to the mayhem. What is the truth? BJP's Tuhin Sinha and Samajwadi Party's Ghanshyam Tiwari, former UP DGP Vikram Singh and Brigadier MK Khanna debate on News Today with Preeti Choudhry.

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