I am absolutely furious.

17 people dead. 35+ injured. In a split second, a festival of joy turned into an absolute nightmare at Sarada Park (Chor Bagan), and for what?

A sudden spell of rain?

Rain during Durga Puja is not new to Kolkata. What is new, or rather, a recurring curse, is the pathetic lack of basic safety infrastructure.

How does a major pandal pulling thousands of people every single hour not have proper, wide exit routes?

Why was the lighting so terrible that people couldn't even see where they were running?

Where the hell were the volunteers and crowd management teams when things started going south?

Every single year, clubs compete for the biggest budgets, the most lavish themes, and the highest footfall. They brag about lakhs of visitors, but when it comes to basic human safety, they pinch pennies.

The organizers, the civic authorities, and the planners who approved this setup have blood on their hands.

We talk so proudly about our culture and hospitality, yet we fail at the absolute bare minimum: keeping our citizens alive.

My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones tonight over incompetence.

We need accountability, safety mandates, and criminal charges for organizers who treat human lives like cattle.

Stay safe out there, Kolkata, because no one else is looking out for us.

Other pandals are closing too btw. It can’t get worse than this.

Source: https://tv9bangla.com/kolkata/cpim-book-stall-allegedly-attacked-in-entally-former-minister-debesh-das-injured-1354094.html/amp

This is a viral video thats doing the rounds, from a person that was there during the Chorbagan stampede

Some clarification: I skipped voting last time because frankly I didn't want another easy TMC win.

But what happened today I am regretting my decision. 20 deaths from a stampede at a Pujo organised by a BJP man with the CMs 'bhaipo' as a committee member.

There are flyers of BJPs win which are still lying around near the Howrah bridge, and power has already got to their heads. Utter carelessness.

I even saw a video of amit shah walking around somewhere with dhaki and sanai in the background after the incident.

Dehatis outside colleges with bhagwa flags. The kind of vulgar statement the CM makes about other people. Platforming that anti-Bangali bigot bagheshwar baba.

Is this what we have to endure till the next elections?

BJP already has a somewhat moderate candidate, Agnimitra Paul, who was about to become CM. Even tho we all saw the bridge incident.

Kicking away Suvendu Adhikari should be a no brainer.

This year puja has very less lightings, decoration stuffs and now this chorbagan incident..

They spoiled the already fun lacked festival this year

Literally ruined the biggest festival of west bengal..

Traffic police were just sitting on chair and let the young volunteers to do all the work..

TMC was chor, daku but atleast they did durga puja on a very big scale. I personally had very big expectations from the new government. The best they did is the eden garden event only for durga puja

For the first time in the state's history, the gov has managed to achieve so much greatness that people are dying on Durga Puja. Bhalo lagche to bhai o and Beheno? Did you eat Non-veg? Maybe thats what caused it? The Vishwaguru government is achieving new heights everyday.

দড়ি ধরে মারো টান, রাজা হবে খান খান! ✊🏻

Don't make them get away from this disaster. Hope ABP doesn't delete the facts.

Source in case it gets deleted - https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/kolkata/stampede-like-situation-reportedly-in-kolkata-chorbagan-pujo-dgtl/cid/1720441

https://x.com/chhuti_is/status/2111514621236633850

1. ⁠‘Oh But what about deshapriya park?’ - read the caption. If you don’t have comprehending skills, that I can’t fix unfortunately.
   
2. ⁠‘People had died before also, I know’ - show credible source or else put back your misinformation where you pulled it out from
   
3. ⁠‘Don’t politicise, I don’t understand how this Is failure of the government’ - firstly, বলদ। secondly, the BJP is using the police to demolish Left-wing bookstalls and suppress the opposition. They are so vile that they continue to stoke an "us versus them" narrative even during the Puja festivities. Consequently, there is an inadequate police presence at various Puja pandals across Kolkata, and the police are not even focused on managing the crowds. It is this entire situation that has led to the disaster in Chorbagan.

That’s it. I don’t care a fig about your opinion if you are hell bent on being blind. Just know it could have also been you. I will not engage with this anymore. God bless. Stay safe.

Edit : I used a curse word which I removed. Sokal sokal mukh kharap korte chai na.

By god’s grace I was just 1-2 min away from entering the Pandel when the chaos happened

It started because of a fight apparently (ppl were backing off , when we asked them why they said ppl were fighting badly inside)

Because of the fights inside , a lot of ppl were hurrying which caused the stampede.

It was raining heavily ,Now the Pandel is extremely small and the path towards the Pandel was also very small compared to the crowd. Even in that path ppl were going towards the Pandel and coming back , there was an alternative path to the Pandel which was a literal road but idk why it blocked and barricaded (even if it’s literally raining heavily , how can ppl walk in that conjugated lane)

Now when the situation became serious I saw a lot of ppl carrying children and calling out their parent’s names, thank god to those ppl for showing kindness and acting fast to keep the children’s away from that place as soon as possible.

A lot of ppl kept shouting that why isn’t the police inside , they literally went inside later and were unable to reach the fight site as ofc there is already a crowd blocking them. Why wasn’t any police inside for safety but just outside the Pandel?

now ,A kid was crying outside the Pandel saying her brother was inside. Me and my friends were looking for a police nearby, we said him that she is alone and is lost please guide us what to do. He said “ekhon ki korbo” arre atleast keep her in ur police booth nearby or say any nearby shop vendor to do that ,

He just said “Pandel er pashe thakuk” wtf , later on some other ppl said that their friend was also stuck inside the Pandel and hence they are waiting so to let the kid stay with her and that we should get away from the region as it’s not safe so ya we went away from place asap

I hate the person who said “Ami ki korbo” , just do ur fucking job

মন্ডপে মন্ডপে কলকাতা পুলিশ প্রত্যেক বছর যেভাবে ভিড় সামাল দেয় সেটা পৃথিবীর অন্য কোনও পুলিশের পক্ষে করা সত্যিই প্রায় অসম্ভব কাজ।

সেই কলকাতা পুলিশকে মন্ডপের ভিড় সামাল দেওয়ার দায়িত্ব থেকে সরিয়ে বামপন্থীদের বইয়ের স্টল ভাঙতে পাঠিয়েছিলো শুভেন্দু অধিকারী।

একটা তারকাটা সাইকো মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর ইগোর জন্য বাঙালির সবচেয়ে বড় উৎসব আজ রক্তের দাগে কলঙ্কিত হলো।

যেই নিরীহ মানুষগুলো প্রাণ হারালো, সেই নিরীহ মানুষগুলোর রক্ত হিন্দু হিন্দু করে ক্ষমতায় আসা ভোটচোর শুভেন্দুকে আজীবন তাড়া করে বেড়াবে

I’m not a native of Kolkata and came here for Pujo. Yesterday, I was at Chorebagan around the same time this incident happened. Reading about it made me sad. I saw fire rescue vehicles rushing towards the location.

I had loved the pandal’s photos and booked a bike taxi to visit it. It was raining heavily, and the elderly rider person waited under a shelter longer than usual. He still stood there for longer although rain has stopped. Though the pandal was just 500 metres away, I didn't go and felt like let the rider complete his ride.

The confusing roads led me to other pandals. But i wanted to visit this pandal somehow. I tried navigating with Google Maps to reach this one, but my phone battery died, forcing me to leave. While waiting for a taxi, I saw fire brigade vehicles rushing down that very road.

কে দায়ী হবে এই ঘটনার জন্যে ??
The visuals are harrowing

একটা ৭ বছরের বাচ্চাও মারা গেছে

This is a video from around June July 2026 .
New government has just come to power and this is what they did in Chorebagan .
For them Masters are more important than GOD .