Vijayawada: Calling the one-man judicial commission report on the Tirupati stampede incident “biased” and “predetermined”, opposition YSRCP on Friday demanded a probe by the CBI probe into the entire thing. Six persons died and over 30 were injured in the stampede on the evening of Jan 8 just before the Vaikuntha Ekadashi festival in Tirumala. Former TTD chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy claimed that the report seems to have spared the main persons and made a few lower-rung officials scapegoats. The state cabinet on Thursday accepted the report submitted by retired high court judge, Justice M Satyanarayana Murthy, on the stampede. “The report seems to be predetermined as it has let off the main persons responsible for the incident, but has selectively picked two persons and made them scapegoats. The entire process is a precursor to the various vigilance and other commission reports that would be released in the coming days,” the senior YSRCP leader said, alleging that the probe report seems to be an eyewash and a case study for all future inquiries.He said the YSRCP govt had introduced extended darshan for 10 days for the convenience of devotees after consulting religious heads, but that practice was done away with by the NDA govt in the state which did not make proper arrangements for the lakhs of devotees who came for the Vaikuntha dwara darshan. “We reject the judicial commission report, which seems to be a premeditated one and demand a CBI inquiry for facts to come out,” he said.
