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00:00What were the mechanisms you were using?
00:21Yeah, that was it.
00:23Earlier, even one week, ten days before Vaikuntha Ekadasi, we used to display boards all over Tirupati town and Tirumala,
00:32wherever the counters are available, and till what time counters are opening and what time they are closed.
00:39And we used to monitor properly, with proper police protection for each count, at each counter.
00:46That's why we were able to conduct, during the last five years, without any such type of incident.
00:54Lakhs of people were allowed to go and have darshan of Lord Venkateshwara during Vaikuntha Ekadasi, ten days.
01:01And tokens were issued whenever it is totally available in Tirumala.
01:08Because once if you start issuing tokens without any control, people will start piling up at Tirumala hills.
01:17To avoid that only, we started issuing, during our regime only, our government only, during YSRCP government only,
01:24we started issuing this token system.
01:27So that whenever up to 1 lakh people or 80,000 people, 2 lakh people used to issue tokens,
01:34and those people are only allowed to go to climb the hills and have darshan.
01:38Next day, next batch.
01:40Like that we were able to monitor properly and control the total devotional people,
01:50whoever is coming to have darshan.
01:52We had to monitor them properly.
01:54Those efforts were lagging here.
01:57Those efforts, government has totally failed in putting the coordinating effort between TTD officials and police officials.
02:06And police, this government you have been seeing, they have been used for various activities to climb,
02:14to book cases against YSRCP leaders and to deploy protection forces to various other occasions.
02:22Because this is very important.
02:24Lakhs of people, devotees will come to have Lord Venkateshwara darshan.
02:27They should have deployed proper police force here.
02:30That is lagging back.
02:32That's why they should conduct an impartial enquiry,
02:35and whoever is responsible for this type of incident, they should be given proper punishment.
03:11We are informing the families who have lost their children.
03:14Approximately 6 people have died.
03:1630 to 40 more people are being treated with injuries.
03:25We are doing our best to ensure that all of them survive.
03:29Without any inconvenience.
03:31But the incident that happened yesterday is a total government failure.
03:35Without proper police deployment, without proper police force, this type of incident happened.
03:41I can understand this clearly.
03:43When this type of incident happens, the government should immediately compensate the families who have lost their children.
03:50Similarly, the people who have taken treatment should also be compensated.
03:56The government should do it immediately.
03:58Similarly, this incident happened on the first day itself.
04:01Actually, this incident has been going on since last night.
04:07This incident happened just now.
04:09In these 10 days, we should not repeat this type of incident again.
04:13We should take all the measures.
04:15After taking proper security arrangements,
04:17we should conduct a program to give tokens to devotees.
04:20We are requesting the government to take measures.
04:23When our government was in power,
04:26our Prime Minister Jaganmohan Reddy was the Prime Minister.
04:30Even during the corona pandemic,
04:32we have taken strict measures to ensure that the devotees are not inconvenienced.
04:37Not only in the case of Vikundakadasi, but also in the case of Brahmotsava,
04:41these two incidents are the main ones.
04:43In these two incidents, the devotees are affected the most.
04:48So, even if there is a severe corona pandemic,
04:52we should ensure that devotees are not inconvenienced.
04:55We should ensure that such incidents do not happen again.