Opposition deplores Islamophobia campaign over Markaz Nizamuddin episode.Urges Govt to stop communalising India’s fight against coronavirus
By Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: Opposition parties today decried the attempts in a section of electronic and print media to communalize the Nizamuddin Markaz episode over the cornovirus pandemic. Main opposition Congress cautioned that the deadly virus does not differentiate between religion, community and caste. Urging the government to stop this madness, Communist party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) warned that it will weaken the India’s war against COVID-19.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in her opening remarks to the Congress Working Committee meeting, said the meeting is being held in the midst of an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis.
“We meet today in the midst of an unprecedented health and humanitarian crisis. The magnitude of the challenge before us is daunting but our resolve to overcome it must be greater.”
Taking the note of attempts to communalize the human tragedy along Hindu-Muslim lines, Gandhi said the virus does distinguish between religion, race or any political ideology and warned that any such attitude would have a direct impact on the country.
“Covid-19 does not differentiate between political ideology, religion, caste, age or gender. The choices we make today will have a direct impact tomorrow on our family, neighbourhood, community, environment and nation.”
She urged the countrymen to act together in solidarity meeting this unprecedented challenge in order to protect all sections of the society especially the most vulnerable.
She warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has already caused untold suffering across the world, but it has also reaffirmed the bonds of brotherhood that unite humanity. In our country, those who are most vulnerable to the consequences of this pandemic are the poor and disadvantaged.
Only if we act together in solidarity, we will overcome this crisis, she said.
In response to this correspondent question that media is communalizing the pandemic issue, AICC Communication Department, Incharge Randeep Singh Surjewala said the Congress president herself stated in the CWC meeting that the Covid-19 did not discriminate on basis of religion, caste, age or gender.
Addressing the press conference after the CWC meet, without taking the name of Tablighi Jamaat, Surjewala also said that those who violated the lockdown and the Visa rules should be booked under the law.
Echoing the similar concern, CPI (M), the largest constituent of the Left bloc, said it condemned the efforts and the campaign in social media to give this a communal color and to target a community.
“ The Coronavirus does not differentiate on the basis of religion. All efforts to communalise the issue must be rebuffed.”
Urging the government to stop this spread of such dangerous communal polarization, the party’s Poilt Bureau (PB) said all attempts to communalise will only undermine India’s war against COVID-19. .
“All efforts to communalise this fight will only undermine our early triumph in containing the virus. This would be self-defeating and all efforts must be made by the government to end the spread of such dangerous communal polarisation.”
It also noted with serious concern that a large number of those who attended the meetings of the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi and who dispersed to different parts of the country have been found infected with the Coronavirus.
“It was irresponsible on the part of the Jamaat leadership to have organized the meeting in mid-March when restrictions were already in place about size of gatherings. It is also inexplicable how the authorities allowed a second gathering on March 2O-21.”
The PB urged the government that all big gatherings, social, religious and political, that have been held in many parts of the country after the March 13 order prohibiting assembly of more than 200 people must be investigated thoroughly.
The PB also appealed to all not to fall prey to provocations and strengthen our united efforts to defeat this pandemic.
As the country is battling to tackle the deadly cornovirus, the Islamophobia has reached to an unprecedented level in the country.
While the TV channels are engaged in ugly race on the Markaz Nizamuddin episode, the Hindutva warriors and their foot soldiers are not leaving any stone unturned to target the Muslim community and Tablighi Jamaat which has taken the COVID-19 threat casually like others.
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