Prayagraj Mahakumbh 2025 formally started in Uttar Pradesh today on Monday (13 January 2025). Crores of people from all over the country and the world are coming to this biggest religious event of Hindus and completing their spiritual journey. The government is presenting it as India’s cultural and heritage. However, there are some people in the society who are engaged in defaming Kumbh.
A video is going viral on various social media platforms, in which smoke is seen coming out near a tent and fire brigade personnel are trying to deal with it. By making this video viral it is being claimed that there is a massive fire in the hospital of Mahakumbh Mela area.
An X (formerly Twitter) user named Advocate Nazneen Akhtar shared this and made a similar claim. Another user named Saima Akhtar wrote, “Major fire broke out in the hospital of Mahakumbh Mela area.” Syed Hasan Imam Zaidi also made the same claim by sharing the video.
A massive fire broke out in the hospital of Maha Kumbh Mela area. pic.twitter.com/DyHk6Ky57D
— Saima Khan (@saimakhan__86) January 12, 2025
A massive fire broke out in the hospital of Maha Kumbh Mela area.#KumbhMela2025 https://t.co/JXXFQXJUtE
— Syed Hasan Imam Zaidi (@Syed_1109084) January 13, 2025
Such false claims are being made to defame Prayagraj Mahakumbh. Sudarshan News journalist Sagar Kumar has made this claim. He has also demanded action from Uttar Pradesh Police against people making such claims.
Sagar Kumar wrote on his social media site X, “How Jihadis are trying to defame Kumbh. See how the mock drill is being explained. Strictest action should be taken against Uttar Pradesh Police Nazneen Akhtar.”
How Jihadi.
They are trying to defame Kumbh.
See how the mock drill is being explained.@Uppolice Strictest action should be taken against Nazneen Akhtar. https://t.co/sG5HAjJuLP— Sagar Kumar “Sudarshan News” (@KumaarSaagar) January 13, 2025
With the official start of Kumbh along with the first bath of Paush Purnima, the pace of making this video viral has increased. However, this video is going viral on social media for the last several days. The handle named MP Coverage on social media Instagram had written on January 3, 2025, “Major fire broke out in the hospital of Prayagraj, Maha Kumbh Mela area this morning, 8 people reported injured.”
A similar claim was made on social media site Facebook on January 4.
After this, a similar claim was made on 6 January 2025 also.
The journalist has described it as a mock drill, which is being publicized as a fire incident. It is being claimed on social media that some people have also been injured in this. Let us tell you that the incident of fire in Kumbh took place in the year 2013, when in UP. Samajwadi Party There was a government of. About two dozen Kalpavasis including 6 women and 3 children were injured. At that time the management of Kumbh Mela was in the hands of Azam Khan.