Free India’s first Kumbh-1954: amid advisories for cholera  inoculation & “VIP culture”, stamped killed nearly 800 devotees the  day President, PM & some governors & CMs were in the city. In a  stinging attack in the Lok Sabha on February 17, J B Kripalani said “… These sadhu associations passed resolutions  supporting the Congress governments, and strengthening the hands of  authority, while all the time what was needed was not the strengthening  of the hands of authority, but their heads of, and also infusing in them  some kind of feeling for the poor…” many lessons learnt from the  tragedy…@IndianExpress