Nizamuddin Tablighi Jamaat congregation: Nagaland’s commercial town Dimapur shuts down for three days
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Apr 1, 2020, 10:52 am IST
Snarled-up traffic and large number of people seen at Naga Bazaar,
Old Market, Dimapur, amid lockdown
Panic spread across the country including infar-flung northeast and states such as Nagaland with negligible Muslim thepopulation as reports went viral that some citizens from such places alsoattended the now-infamous TablighiJamaat event at Nizamuddin in Delhi.TablighiJamaat in Delhi ignored government orders and hosted a gatheringattended by up to 1,700 people in March.
People tested positive of Coronavirus at Nizamuddin are spitting out of bus which might infect more people
Nine Indians and one Filipino who attended have since died. Among the Indians, six people were from Telangana, while the others were from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Two people from Nagaland’s Dimapur too attended the meet and reports said there were Muslim participants from other places in Nagaland and other northeastern states at the Nizamuddin meet. District administration in Dimapur on March 31, Tuesday, ordered total bandh for next three days by stating in an order that “all shops, commercial and private establishments shall remain closed ” from April 1 (0600 hours) to 12 midnight of April 3.
People facing lockdown due to Covid-19 having food and shelterd at Dimapur District Sports Complex
The order signed by the Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, AnoopKhinchi, supersedes earlier order issued in connection with the national lockdown enforced between March 25 till April 14 after the announcement for the same was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The new order makes it clear that lockdown will be enforced in a “more stringent” manner. However, DC’s law does not mention anything about the Nizamuddin congregation of a large number of Muslims or participants from Dimapur and other places in Nagaland attending the same. Satyendar Jain, Delhi’s health minister, said that the organisers had done a ‘parade (blunder)’ in organising such a mega meet as between 1,500 and 1,700 people attended the same.
The TablighiJamaat event was led by Malaysian and Indonesian Islamic preachers. It may be mentioned that Malaysia was already hit by the spread of Wuhan virus and it is primarily presumed that the Wuhan virus infection in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam and Cambodia could have been transmitted from such large gatherings. Several foreign Islamic preachers are suspected of having attended a TablighiJamaat global gathering — Ijtima Asia — at Seri Petaling mosque, Selangor in Malaysia. The headquarters of the TablighiJamaat, known as Bangle Waali Masjid, has been sealed by Delhi police.
10 people who were at Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin died due to COVID-19
TablighiJamaat tries to replicate the way Muslims lived in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. It was started in 1926 in Mewat province by Islamic scholar Maulana Muhammad Ilyas. Meanwhile, in Assam, the first case of a positive test on COVID19 surfaced on Tuesday.
Assam Health Minister HimantaBiswaSarma tweeted: “A 52-year-old person has been found positive for #Coronavirus and is Assam’s first Covid19 patient. He is undergoing treatment at Silchar Medical College. His condition is stable”. In Mizoram, there has been a confirmed case of a coronavirus affected patient. The person is a pastor who had gone to Amsterdam and other parts of Europe.
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