BJP presser on Madhya Pradesh temple stampede

New Delhi: Tragedy struck Dussehra festivities in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district, nearly 400 km from Bhopal, with at least 115 people killed and over 80 injured in a stampede near a temple yesterday morning. Address a press conference, BJP's Prakash Javadekar said Congress leaders are politicising the issue.

Below are the highlights:

• This is a very unfortunate tragedy
• More than 100 lives have been lost 
• It is national tragedy
  
• Every year we hear such tragedies- Nasik, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Sabarimala
• Centre must survey important places of pilgrimage 
• Centre should prepare a national disaster plan and help states
• Instead of doing this, every Congress leader from Kamal Nath, Scindia, Maken and Satyavrat are playing politics because of elections
• We condemn this attitude
• There is an election code of conduct in place so no leader is allowed to go.
  
• Congress' approach is political