markaz opinion

10. March 23, 2020 - BJP government in Madhya Pradesh sworn in. Massive street celebrations
organized and reported.
11. March 24, 2020 - PM Modi announces countrywide lockdown, gives four hours notice to shut
down an entire country of 135 crore people
12. March 25, 2020 - Yogi Adityanath participates in massive ceremony in a pre-dawn puja at the
Ram Janmabhoomi premises to shift the idol of Ram Lalla to a temporary structure to give way to
the commencement of the sacred temple.
13. March 30, 2020 - News emerges that 6 pilgrims who had been to the Tableeghi Jamaat
Conference between March 13 - March 15 have died.
14. March 30, 2020 - Kejriwal orders FIR against Nizamuddin Management. Nizamuddin Basti
cordoned off.
15. March 31, 2020 - BJP IT cell, mainstream media, some left-liberals, progressive Muslim
intellectuals, opportunists on both sides of the aisle start bashing Islam, its adherents, jamaat,
Nizamuddin, et al.
16. March 31, 2020 - Sania Ahmad very rightly writes, India is the only place in this world where the
coronavirus pandemic has also been assigned different faiths from time to time. Somewhere it is
Hindu, other places it is Muslim, somewhere else it is a Sikh and so on and so forth.
Meanwhile the poor, the daily wage earners, left stranded between life, death and livelihood,
continue to endlessly march to their villages and intermittently die, somewhere sprayed upon with
industry grade pesticides, somewhere beaten by the brutal police, somewhere punished under the
gaze and heat of a punishing sun.
#Nizamuddin #Corona #HinduMuslim #Lockdown
Sufiyan Sadiq