Overview
- Akhilesh Yadav, who visited Medanta Hospital in Lucknow on Tuesday, met BJP MLA Anupama Jaiswal and posted that society needs harmony rather than discord.
- Doctors say Jaiswal is in an ICU isolation ward under burn specialist Dr Nikhil Puri, and they caution the true extent of her injuries may take 48 to 72 hours to assess.
- Reports differ on severity, with several outlets citing doctors who say about 75% of her face is burned while one account says she suffered superficial forehead burns of roughly four percent.
- The accident during Saturday’s BJP ‘Mahila Janaakrosh March’ in Bahraich occurred as an effigy of Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi was lit, with a viral video showing a sudden flare; officials have suggested trapped air or excess fuel as possible causes.
- Deputy chief ministers Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya and other leaders visited or checked on Jaiswal, and her husband said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called with treatment instructions as parties urged restraint at protests.