India, Feb. 3 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's tribute to Maha Kumbh stampede victims on Monday created controversy in the Rajya Sabha.

The stampede took place on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya, one of the most auspicious days of the Hindu calendar, in which at least 30 people lost their lives and 60 were injured in a pre-dawn stampede at Sangam area in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj on January 29.

Participating in a debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge used the phrase "thousands who died in Kumbh" to pay tributes to the deceased in the stampede. Follow Parliament LIVE updates.

"I pay my tributes to the people who died in Maha Kumbh... the thousands who died in Kumbh," news a...