300-km Traffic Jam To Maha Kumbh? Vehicles Reportedly Stuck For 48 Hours

Hundreds of devotees heading to the Maha Kumbh are stranded on highways as a consequence of large visitors jams stretching tons of of kilometers on routes resulting in Prayagraj. Many recommend that the queue of stranded automobiles was so long as 300 km.

Discovering it tough to handle the visitors, cops in a number of districts of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh have stopped car motion on a path to Prayagraj. “It is unattainable to go in direction of Prayagraj at present as there’s a visitors jam of 200-300 kilometres,” stories quoted the police as saying.

“It’s being claimed that automobiles are caught for 48 hours. It’s taking virtually 10-12 hours to cowl simply 50 km,” stated a person caught in visitors.

A jam of as much as 25 km was reported on routes resulting in Prayagraj from Varanasi, Lucknow and Kanpur. Even inside town internet hosting the mega Kumbh pageant, a jam of about seven kilometers was witnessed.

Authorities have shut the Prayagraj Sangam railway station to keep away from any untoward incident.

“For the reason that passengers had been going through problem in getting out of the station as a consequence of heavy crowd exterior Prayagraj Sangam station, it was determined to shut Prayagraj Sangam station in view of the heavy crowd of devotees,” stated Senior Divisional Business Supervisor (Northern Railway), Lucknow, Kuldeep Tiwari.

North Central Railway has carried out a single route visitors system on the Prayagraj Junction station until additional orders.

Extra Deputy Commissioner of Police (Visitors) Kuldeep Singh stated the jam was as a consequence of a really excessive variety of automobiles attempting to achieve the Mela website. “The variety of automobiles could be very excessive. The passengers try to come back as shut as potential to the Maha Kumbh Mela space. Resulting from this, there’s a lengthy jam,” he stated.

Samajwadi Celebration chief Akhilesh Yadav criticised the Uttar Pradesh authorities over the visitors congestion in Prayagraj, claiming that it has additionally led to a scarcity of important commodities within the metropolis.

महाकुंभ के अवसर पर उप्र में वाहनों को टोल मुक्त किया जाना चाहिए, इससे यात्रा की बाधा भी कम होगी और जाम का संकट भी। जब फ़िल्मों को मनोरंजन कर मुक्त किया जा सकता है तो महाकुंभ के महापर्व पर गाड़ियों को कर मुक्त क्यों नहीं? pic.twitter.com/1ceISd8WNK

— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) February 9, 2025

Officers recommend over 46 lakh devotees have taken a dip within the holy Sangam at present. A complete of about 44 crore pilgrims have taken dip because the Maha Kumbh started final month, authorities stated.