Particular possible causes of the tragedy are being highlighted depending on which side of the political spectrum the analysis emanates from

xStampedes are not unknown in India where crowd surges at events of various kinds, ranging from the spiritual to the temporal as in events when the distribution of freebies takes place to the political as during the deaths of revered leaders, have taken the lives of many innocent people. A political rally was, however, an unlikely location for a tragedy of the scale that took place at a rally held by actor-politician Vijay in Tamil Nadu. When the crowd surged to get a closer glimpse of the star, the loss of lives stretched to a cruel 40 and counting.

Several reasons could be listed for this avoidable tragedy — beginning with the actor’s late arrival

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