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M Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede: Arun Dhumal, who is the Governing Council of the IPL has reckoned that since BCCI didn't know about the victory parade that the Royal Challengers Bengaluru must have planned after lifting the trophy and now the board must be investigating as to how they can avoid repeating such a tragedy which claimed the lives of innocent fans. Eleven people had died and a lot of others had sustained injuries in the stampede which occurred outside the venue, where the RCB players were being felicitated on Wednesday.

“We have taken note and will see that such incidents never happen again. We did not know of any victory parade or any celebrations taking place in Bengaluru. We had no idea who organized it and how so many fans came there. We will look into the matter," Dhumal revealed.

Devajit Saikia, who is the secretary of the BCCI revealed that the board doesn't have any control over a team's celebration but a situation of a stampede is quite worrisome and that all the other teams should learn a lesson as far as future celebrations are concerned.

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“This is an eye-opener and we have to think about what we should do in such situations. There will be a winner every year and there will be a celebration in their home city. So we have to learn a lesson so it doesn’t happen in the future. At this moment, the BCCI has no control over private celebrations of a franchise," Saikia told the Indian Express.

Saikia said that they took care of even the minutest details of the safety and the crowd management for the IPL 2025 summit clash in Ahmedabad, where about 100,000 people had watched the match live as RCB defeated Punjab Kings and lifted their maiden IPL title in 18 years.

“Yesterday (Tuesday), we had 1,32,000 people at the Narendra Modi Stadium. We took care of every minor detail about safety and crowd management, and there was not a single incident even though all the stands were full. There was proper policing and control. Something went wrong today in Bengaluru, but the BCCI has no role to play," he concluded.