Bengaluru stampede: After the death of 11 people in a stampede near the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the BCCI has now come into action mode. Following the terrible accident during the Celebration of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) IPL victory, the board is considering formal guidelines to regulate such events in future.
BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia, while speaking to the cricbing, confirmed that now the league will be actively considered to set the criteria to celebrate the celebration after the title in the future. Saikia further said, “At some level the BCCI will have to do something. We cannot live as a mute spectator.”
Although the RCB celebrations were organized privately, Saikia admitted that the results of the event could not be separated from the large ecosystem of the game. He said, “This was a personal matter of RCB, but we are responsible for cricket in India in BCCI and we will try to ensure that such incidents do not happen again in future.”
After this accident, there is a continuous demand for accountability and reform. The Karnataka government has already started action, in which several arrests and disciplinary steps have been taken against the police and organizing officers. In the cricket world, concerns are being raised about the purpose of crowd control and the purpose of such collective events.
India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir also spoke a day after the incident and strongly opposed the celebrations. Gambhir said, “I think people’s lives are much more important and I will continue to say this. We can be a little careful in terms of not doing such road shows and perhaps do something like this in closed doors or stadium.”
