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NEW DELHI – Taking cognizance of communal turn of India’s fight against the COVID-19, Opposition parties urge the Central government to rein in the attempts to communalise the Nizamuddin Markaz episode over the Cornovirus pandemic.
The CPI (M) has condemned the efforts and the campaign on social media to give the issue 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 Polit 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.”
He also criticized the Tablighi Jamaat for organizing the meeting.
“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.”
He 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.
He also appealed to all not to fall prey to provocations and strengthen our united efforts to defeat this pandemic.
Earlier, Congress president Sonia 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 to face 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.
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.
