LUCKNOW, Feb. 24 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has said the central and the state governments should come together to create a corpus fund of Rs.2 lakh crore for organising Mahakumbh. He also said there should be permanent infrastructure for the mega event.

In a statement issued on Monday, he said: "Mahakumbh is a religious event of faith of sadhus, religious leaders and common people. However, the BJP government made it a political event but failed in organising it smoothly. Neither could it manage the crowd or traffic nor could it provide clean water for bathing."

"The report of Central Pollution Control Board and NGT regarding Ganga water in Sangam is a document of the failure of the BJP government," Yadav alleged.

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