Lucknow, Feb. 4 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Ravidas Mehrotra on Tuesday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Hema Malini for her statement on the Mahakumbh stampede and said that BJP was responsible for the death of the people in the stampede.

Mehrotra further stated that the loss of the lives in the stampede did not hold any importance for BJP and they considered it a very small incident.

"A lot of people lost their lives during the Mahakumbh stampede, BJP is responsible for the death of the people in the stampede. They are considering it a small incident and it does not hold any importance for them..." the MLA said speaking to ANI.

Further, he stated that BJP had not been revealing on the actual number of people who had...