Lucknow, Feb. 18 -- Samajwadi Party leader Mata Prasad Pandey on Tuesday said that the party members opposed the Governor's address in the budget session because she read false figures of deaths in the stampede that occurred in Mahakumbh.

Further he said that the party members demanded a correct figure of the deaths.

Speaking to ANI, Pandey said "Samajwadi Party opposed what was being read in her (Governor's) address because false figures were given in it. There was a demand that the correct figures of the deaths occurred in the stampede of Maha Kumbh should be given... The Governor left the speech halfway... We feel that she was saddened by the incidents that happened in Maha Kumbh, so she did not read the entire speech ..."

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