Coronavirus | Nizamuddin centre COVID-19 cases spark a controversy
The HinduA controversy erupted on Tuesday, a day after it emerged that a religious centre in Nizamuddin West in Delhi had hosted several thousand people earlier this month notwithstanding the novel coronavirus pandemic. Several prominent leaders expressed contrasting views about the situation around the centre — Alami Markaz Banglewali Masjid — where hundreds of people were stationed after a religious conference was cut short due to the sudden lockdown. Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan questioned the Delhi Police on why it did not make arrangements to send back the trapped people even though he had informed the DCP South East and ACP Nizamuddin at around 12 p.m. on March 23 that around 1,000 people are trapped in the Nizamuddin centre. Unfair to blame them.” Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah took to Twitter to say that “now the #TablighiJamat will become a convenient excuse for some to vilify Muslims everywhere as if we created & spread #COVID around the world.”