What the Tablighi people were doing in Hardwar, Mathura, Kashi and Ujjain.

R K Sinha

Tablighi people from Nizamuddin Markaz visited Haridwar and Varanasi besides the other most sacred places of Hindus, is beyond the thinking of one’s brain. What could be the intention behind this? What prevented them from returning to their homes after having spent weeks in Markaz meetings and who guided them to do so?

Let’s talk of Haridwar first where, with the help of electronic surveillance, criminal cases for attempt to murder have been registered against five such Tablighis who were allegedly trying to escape Corona virus investigation. These Tablighi Jamaat members actually belonged to Alwar, Rajasthan, and had returned from Nizamuddin Markaz. They were deliberately hidden to avoid Corona investigation. Kovid-19 infection has also been confirmed in one of their partners. The question arises as to why they were hiding despite repeated appeals and warnings of the administration. By doing so, they put others’ lives also in danger, besides their own. However, they are accountable towards their reluctance to avoid investigation.

Diverting to Varanasi now, two Tablighis were found Corona positive, one of whom lives in the Dashashwamedh police station area. Everyone knows that Dashashwamedh Ghat is a well-known place in Gangahat and has religious and significant  historical importance. According to Kashikhand, Shiva-inspired Brahma had performed ten Ashwamedha Yagya here. Prayageshwar temple is situated at this very place. So once again the question arises as to what that Tablighi was doing here? Who is ignorant of the fact that the basic purpose of the Tablighi Jamaat is to connect non-Muslims with Islam. Were these two tablighis doing all this in Banaras? Of course, they were indulging in the spread of Corona infection during Navratri.

Meanwhile, according to reports from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, some Indonesia’s Tablighi Jamaat activists have been caught by the police there. The big question is, why were they squatting in Saharanpur after the completion of their program in Delhi? Saharanpur is not far from Haridwar and there was a time when Haridwar was also a part of Saharanpur district. Were all these members of the Tablighi Jamaat roaming the country with the intention of trapping the innocent people in corona virus? They knew that lakhs of devotees would come to Rishikesh-Haridwar for taking a bath in the Ganges. Were these special religious places of Hindus on their target? Obviously, the answers to these questions will be known from these wretched people only after intensive investigation.

With their presence in Haridwar and Banaras, there are also indications that they were acting as suicide bombs in a way. Were they planning to  implicate a large population of Hindus in the trap of Corona virus. 287 foreign nationals have been caught in Uttar Pradesh alone . Of these, 211 passports have also been seized. Many foreign nationals were caught in Lucknow, who took part in the Tablighi Jamaat program in Nizamuddin, Delhi. All of them have been sent to jail after 14 days of Quarantine. Two infected tablighis, likewise, were hidden in Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain.  They have been kept in isolation. Same is the case for the religious cities of Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

Now it is known to the whole world that a person infected with corona makes many people victim of this terrible virus. Of course, these Tablighi human bombs, after finishing their conference, visited as many as 17 states of the country, carrying Corona virus with them, have made many innocent people victims of  corona virus and pushed them to death, thus contributing about 30% of the total number of infections in the country. As per statistics of Health ministry at centre,  alone in Tamilnadu, 900 out of one thousand infected are due to Tablighi Jamatis. Now think about how much crisis they have put in the country. May it be for those doctors, nurses, police, cleaning warriors, who are working hard day and night, fighting these unscrupulous fellows on the ground. Otherwise, these enemies of humanity would have succeeded in their cause.

One thing seems clear that the people of Tablighi Jamaat were determined to do great harm to Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh through Corona. That is why so many indigenous and foreign Tablighi workers were roaming in these states and also in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Islam has truly been maligned due to these pretenders. Actually. these fistful of misanthropists hardly represent the 200 million Muslims of the country. The evil acts which they did in the MMG Hospital Ghaziabad are well known. Damn these. Thanks to Yogi government who is taking stringent action against these lowly Jamaatis. Chief Minister Yogi has set a precedent by directing action under the RASUKA (NSA) on all those accused who flouted the police’s appeal and who were later apprehended by the police.

Indeed, the Chief Ministers of other states of the country should also adopt  strict measures against these enemies of humanity. They have committed heinous crime with the country and society, which is nothing short of a treason.

If we positive side of the pandemic coronavirus, it has given us an opportunity to live properly following all laws of the land. Take action whosoever violates it. Some incidents of attacking police party are highly condemnable and the administration must deal it with strictness. In Patiala, Punjab, some Nihang Sikh chopped off the hand of the police officer just because he asked them a pass required for the entry into Sabzi Mandi. It becomes more amazing as the incident took place in Patiala where ancestral property of Captain Amrinder Singh exists. After attacking the police party, these Nihangs took hid in a Gurudwara and reportedly fired at the police party.

The question is not who did what. The question is from where these Tablighi and Nihangs got so much courage to go against the law! This is the high time that the administration should deal with both of these strictly setting an example for future so that no one could dare to even think of doing such inhuman act.

(The author is a former Rajya Sabha member)