Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on the receiving end of the wrath of the Islamists for saying that it is due to the Tablighi Jamaat event at Nizamuddin Markaz that the national capital is currently suffering. Addressing media, the AAP supremo today said that Delhi had to suffer the most because of the Nizamuddin event, especially because of the foreign nationals who attended the event. However, soon after that, Arvind Kejriwal was attacked by Islamists on Twitter who were not too happy with the Nizamuddin event being held responsible for irresponsible behaviour.
Dear CM @ArvindKejriwal ..We know your focus on particular community in every Interview and agenda behind it.. You r the first person who communalise this Health crisis to divert your failure but gain sympathy of ur target voters..!! Time will Expose you more !! https://t.co/BTfIGRgFsJ
No. It’s paying the price of your master’s delayed response. Its paying the price of electing you Kejriwal. What a disappointment of a human being. https://t.co/Zaw4fp0yNt
He was also accused of Islamophobia for simply stating the facts.
U r bigot Islamophobic hypocrite @ArvindKejriwal India is bleeding coz f CM lik u Mr. Kejriwal and PM lik Mr. Modi Indian Muslims are facing open state sponsored hatred & terrorism in this epidemic@cjwerlemanhttps://t.co/21OjdaEqPy
Coronavirus cases in Delhi linked to Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin
As of April 17, 2020, out of total 1707 positive cases in Delhi, 1080 were linked to ‘special operations’ a nickname Delhi Government gave to the Tablighi Jamaat event.
That means, 63.27% of total coronavirus positive people in Delhi are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat. Going by this, it will not be incorrect to say that Delhi paid a huge price for the Nizamuddin event.
Tablighi Jamaat
The Tablighi Jamaat event took place in second week of March where Muslims from across India and other parts of the country got together to prove the faith and learn how to live the life as prescribed by Prophet Mohammad. It has become the mega-spreader of coronavirus in India, as many as more than one-third cases in India are linked to that event now. The Muslims who had attended the event, and their family members and those who came into contact with them are testing positive regularly, contributing the increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the country.
A 30-year-old pregnant woman named Rizwana Khatun has alleged that she gave birth to a stillborn baby because she was forced to clean her blood that had spilt on the floor of a government hospital in Jharkhand. In a letter written to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on Sunday, the women alleged that she was accused of spreading the Wuhan Coronavirus by the hospital staff and was forced to clean the blood on the floor at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital hospital in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand.
In the letter, Rizwana claimed that she was abused for being a Muslim and was beaten with slippers when she failed to clean up her blood. She also alleged that had she was given medical assistance on time, her child would have survived. Rizwana Khatun wrote that as it took her considerable time to clean the floor, she could not get medical care on time, resulting in the miscarriage of her child.
As she was in intense pain due to the cleaning job and also assault by medical staff, she immediately rushed to a private hospital where the doctors told that the child was dead, she informed. The woman has requested the CM to take appropriate action against the culprits so that such incidents are not repeated in future.
Inquiry ordered by Jharkhand govt
The Jharkhand Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh informed that an inquiry was initiated into the case. The cops have also taken cognisance of the matter. Jamshedpur Deputy Commissioner has ordered a probe into the incident by forming a team asking it to submit a report within 48 hours.
“A three-member team comprising Deputy Superintendent of MGM, Senior Magistrate of District Administration and Officer in Charge of concerned Police Station, asking them to investigate the matter and report within 48 hours,” said the Deputy Commissioner. The Deputy Commissioner informed that the team was formed immediately after the letter was received on Sunday evening.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal revealed on Sunday that a person who was volunteering at a government food distribution center and helping in distributing food has tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus. Subsequently, he has ordered the rapid testing of those who visited that particular food center along with others working at the centers of the Delhi Government.
I had word with one of #COVID19 positive person,he told me that he was volunteering at a govt food distribution center&was helping in food distribution. I have ordered to hold rapid testing of people who came to that food center, along with others working at our centres: Delhi CM https://t.co/8Pa0wDF9cp
Arvind Kejriwal also said that 186 people who had tested positive for the virus the previous day were aymptomatic, which he considered more dangerous as the individuals could not have been aware that they were carriers of the virus. He also announced that there will be no relaxation in the lockdown norms in Delhi for at least another week. A decision will be taken at the end of that period after consulting experts.
#WATCH “We have decided to keep people of Delhi safe, the lockdown will remain, there will be no relaxation. Will review again after a week,” Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal pic.twitter.com/spQ8aEpmtE
Delhi, as of the time of writing this report, had 1893 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 42 deaths and 72 discharged as per the website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). Meanwhile, 31 members of one single family in Jahangirpuri have tested positive after coming in contact with a woman who died of coronavirus earlier this month. Despite lockdown guidelines, the family members kept meeting each other and visiting the home of the woman who had tested positive and eventually died.
In a shocking video that has now gone viral on social media, Congress MLA Rajendra Bidhuri from the Begun constituency in Rajasthan could be seen refusing ration to an elderly woman because she said that PM Narendra Modi is better than Rajasthan CM.
Rajendra Bidhuri was seen distributing ration and quizzing the beneficiaries who is the greater leader between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. When an elderly woman chose PM Modi over CM Gehlot, the irked Congress MLA took back her ration. In a display of blatant disconcert, he rebuked the woman and said, “Light Diyas at home and leave the ration behind.”
This is very shameful behaviour from Congress MLA in Rajasthan.
Through #FeedTheNeedy initiative @BJP4India karyakartas are daily distributing food & ration to 5 Cr needy.
Speaking to the Republic TV, BJP (Rajasthan) President Satish Poonia accused the Congress party of indulging in discrimination, indifference, and politicisation while distributing ration. He added, “From this one can make out the intention of the Congress party. If they talk in such a manner the people will lose faith and the fight against the coronavirus pandemic will also weaken.”
Congress accused of taking ‘undue credit’
Earlier, Bhilwara’s Devriya village Sarpanch, Kismat Gurjar, released a video and had hit out at Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi for attributing Bhilwara’s successful action plan, now famously called as the ‘Bhilwara Model’, to contain the deadly Coronavirus, which had ensured that the district did not have a single new coronavirus case in 10 days, to Congress member and son Rahul Gandhi.
Taking to Twitter on Saturday, Kismat Gurjar, said that she was hurt because Sonia Gandhi, instead of giving credit for the successful implementation of the drive to local authorities and people of the district, she was attributing it to her son or the Congress led-state government. She furthered that the people of the entire district were really inspired by PM Modi’s appeal. They had abided strictly to his lockdown and social distancing orders. They had also maintained proper hygiene.
During a press conference at the White House on Saturday, US President Donald Trump threatened China with “consequences” if it is found that they were “knowingly responsible” for the outbreak of the Wuhan Coronavirus.
He added, “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t. And now the whole world is suffering because of it. If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences.”
Trump emphasised on how the Chinese Government refused to co-operate with the US in dealing with the pandemic. He said that China was perhaps embarrassed about the fact that the virus originated in the country. The US President also talked about an invincible alliance between China and Joe Biden, one of the Democratic candidates contesting for the post of the President.
Talking about the impact of the Chinese virus on the economy, Donald Trump highlighted, “We had the greatest economy in the world by far. China isn’t even close. Go back two months. And we’re going to keep it that way.”
He also raised questions about the low Chinese figures on Coronavirus-related deaths in the country. Trump reiterated, “The number’s impossible,” he said. “It’s an impossible number to hit.” It is important to remember that China, following pressure from world leaders, had revealed that Wuhan saw a 50% spike in Coronavirus deaths from what was previously reported.
Coronavirus not a “Natural Virus”
A report published by Fox News made a shocking revelation that the Wuhan coronavirus that has swept the globe was not a natural virus but a man-made one that was accidentally leaked by an intern working at the lab at Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Mounting an attack against China for its possible complicity in the spread of the virus, US President Donald Trump took cognisance of the exclusive report published by the Fox News which alleged that though the virus is a naturally occurring strain among bats and not a bioweapon, it was being studied in the Wuhan lab and was eventually leaked by an intern.
Donald Trump seeks origin of Coronavirus
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met on April 9 through video conference to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis but the meet ended without any concrete outcomes.
At the UNSC meeting, USA called for an analysis of the origins of Coronavirus, in an obvious dig at China, while the latter insisted that no country should be made a scapegoat and called for global solidarity in the wake of the pandemic. SG Anthony Gutierres’s call for a global ceasefire received no support and the only thing the UNSC agreed on was on press elements post the meet.
“The United States reiterates today the need for complete transparency and the timely sharing of public health data and information within the international community. The most effective way to contain this pandemic is through accurate, science-based data collection and analysis of the origins, characteristics, and spread of the virus,” Ambassador Kelly Craft said in her remarks on the disease.
Firoz Bakht Ahmed, the Grandnephew of former Congress leader Maulana Azad and the chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) Chancellor has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to extend the lockdown for the entire Ramzan month till May 24.
Firoz Bakht Ahmed also apologised for the acts of violence allegedly by Muslims against healthcare workers across the country.
In a letter, titled ‘extremely pressing! SOS!’ addressed to the Prime Minister on Thursday, the MANUU Chancellor Ahmed said that care should be taken that the lockdown should not be lifted till May 24, the day when Ramzan month ends.
Letter by Firoz Bakht Ahmed, MANUU Chancellor
Overenthusiastic Muslims will crowd the streets, hold iftar and prayer gatherings
Ahmed stated that overenthusiastic Muslims, like the uncontrollable Tablighi Jamaat followers will flood the markets from May 3rd after the lockdown is lifted. He added that Muslims will hold Iftar parties and prayer gatherings in the first week of May by disobeying the Prime Ministerial instructions, a time when coronavirus could peak in the country, which may give rise to corona clusters.
“Care should be taken that the lockdown should not be lifted till May 24, the day when Ramzan month ends. If it is lifted on May 3, a time when Corona will be ripening to its peak in India, overenthusiastic Muslims (as seen in the case of uncontrollable Tablighi Jamaat followers) will start crowding markets, holding iftar parties and prayer gathering, giving rise to Corona clusters by disobeying the Prime Ministerial instruction,” Ahmed wrote in the letter.
According to Ahmed, the actions of Muslims, if lockdown is lifted on May 3rd, it will nullify all government’s never say die, hard work. “It is my very humble submission in community, national and humanity interest,” said Bakht Ahmed in his letter to PM Modi.
Apology on behalf of the Muslims for the violence against healthcare workers
Ahmed has also profusely apologised for the acts of some Muslims who indulged in attacks on doctors, policemen, healthcare workers at various places. “As a law-abiding Indian Muslim, I apologise of behalf of all those belonging to my community in quarantine in India, indulging in violence against doctors, nurses, health workers, police, safai karamcharis etc,” the grandnephew of erstwhile Muslim leader wrote.
“My head is hung in shame whenever I see highly condemned acts of spitting, misbehaving in vulgar manner with the hospital staff (especially nurses), running for the jugular of doctors, throwing urine bottles and not extending cooperation for treatment for coronavirus,” Ahmed added.
Firoz Bakht Ahmed
While the media pandered to Tablighi Jamaat, grandnephew of Bharat Ratna Maulana Abul Kalam Azad recently said that he feels ashamed to be a Muslim due to their activities. He also said that he was appalled that these Jamaatis and many more people are violating the golden mantra given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – “Janata Curfew”, “Lakshman Rekha” and “Jaan hain to Jahaan hain” (If there is life, everything can be done). He also said that that in fact, the true “Tabligh” should have been to get these three instructions be announced five times each day from the mosques. Earlier, too, he had appealed to Muslims to not fall prey to politicians who wanted to break India with anti-CA propaganda.
On Saturday, the Congress urged the national leadership of the CPI-M to ask Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to resign and order a CBI probe to look into the transfer of data on coronavirus suspects to a US-based PR and marketing firm Sprinklr.
According to the reports, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala, who is also the leader of the opposition had first raised the irregularities in storing the data related to coronavirus patients.
Later, former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy accused Pinarayai Vijayan government of indulging in a data scam by pointing out that this data transfer had no clearance from any state government department, the Kerala cabinet or the Centre.
While addressing the media on Saturday, state Congress president Mullapally Ramachandran asked Vijayan to quit and the CPI-M politburo to come clean.
“We are all waiting to hear what they (CPI-M) have to say on this blatant data scam. Only a CBI probe would bring out the truth, as this is a monstrous data scam and a bigger one that SNC Lavalin, the case where Vijayan is linked to and is now before the apex court,” said Ramachandran.
He further said that everyone wanted to know as to who brought the Sprinklr company to India and if it had any connections in Bengaluru.
Sprinklr company and the Kerala data scam
Senior Congress legislator PT Thomas also expressed concerns whether the sudden disappearance of the website of Vijayan’s daughter’s IT firm based in Bengaluru was connected to the Sprinklr data scam.
Meanwhile, a petition has been filed before the Kerala High Court over the decision to hand over the data to Sprinklr.
The petition filed by lawyer Balu Gopalakrishnan accuses Pinarayi Vijayan-government of indulging in a scam by engaging with a foreign-based private company for storing and analyzing coronavirus patients data. The petitioner also questioned the decision to entrust the job with a foreign company, ignoring Indian firms like the C-DIT and NIC.
Free access to data of coronavirus patients
The crux of the problem is the state government’s use of Sprinklr software free of charge until September. The petitioner states that data of citizens were collected without their informed consent. According to the petitioner, more than 1.5 lakh sensitive medical information of the coronavirus patients are with the company.
The Congress also charged against the state government’s collaboration with Sprinklr, whose founder, Ragy Thomas, is suspiciously from Mavelikkara in Alappuzha district.
Contract awarded in violation of rules
Amid the controversy, Kerala IT secretary claimed that he had selected Sprinklr for COVID-19 survey using his discrepancy powers, but now it has come to light that the official has no right to select a company. “The government has decided to have a technological platform to collect details. Hence, while taking the contract of Sprinklr it was assured that the service is free of cost and there are no security issues. The selection of the platform and signing the contract files related to it were my responsibilities,” said the IT secretary.
But as per rules of business, no official is entitled with any discretionary power to grant a contract to any company. Moreover, it is also revealed that rules of business, which prescribes the duties of the Law Department, were violated to select the company.
It has been proved beyond doubts that the Tablighi Jamaat members have been the sole reason behind the spike in the coronavirus cases in India. Apart from this, their anti-social behaviour has left the authorities and medical teams, working day and night to fight the pandemic, completely distraught. Moreover, ever since the reports that Tablighi Jamaat is the primary sources of transmission of coronavirus in the country emerged, the Muslim mobs have continued to attack paramedic staffs and police personnel unabashedly.
Still, there is this so-called secular-liberal’ gang who have been audaciously defending these Jamaatis and rebuking all those who are pointing out the Tablighi Jamaat attendees’ crime, by calling them ‘Islamophobic’.
Pakistani Human rights activist Arif Ajakia released a video on his Youtube channel on April 16, to expose Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi and Arfa Khanum, who can be safely called the founding members of the propaganda wing of the Muslim fundamentalist faction.
He begins with a point by point rebuttal to Saba Naqvi’s claims that Muslims are being targeted in India. Speaking about the video the propagandist had shared recently accusing the entire Hindu community of spreading hatred against the Muslim community while remaining silent on the reprehensible conduct of significant sections of the Muslim community, Arif Ajakia says that if it had not been for India, the Tablighi Jamaats would have had to face a bigger backlash.
The legal framework and secularism in India is impeding government to directly take their names also, they are in fact, being called the single source. Though the fact is that what these Jamaatis have done is “stupidity”, they have risked the lives of 1.30 crore people of the country.
As a responsible journalist, you cannot overlook such things happening in front of you. The misbehaviour, attacks on medical staffs have been actually happening and it is being carried out by the Jamaatis and Muslims, this is a fact, and it cannot be ignored, says the Pakistani activist.
Despite the fact that the people of this particular community has been behind all the transgression, your country is not permitting to take their names directly, and I being a Pakistani, am openly saying that the nuisance created by the Tablighi’s must be stopped. The activist here expresses shock that despite facts being out in the open, journalists like Saba Naqvi calls it “Islamophobia”.
Unfortunately, Saba Naqvi, Rana Ayub, Arfa Kannum’s journalism is confined to a particular community, it’s based on the defence of a community. This is sheer stupidity, exclaims Arif Ajakia.
Though google is full of news which says that these “Mullah’s are organising group feasts, reading group Namaaz”, yet they are being defended. “What should be done, should their topis and beard be photoshopped…what is one to do?”, asks the activists. And when these things are reported journalists like you all start peddling the “Islamophobia” narrative.
Saba Naqvi insinuates Hindu’s spreading hatred against Muslims:
On April 16, Saba Naqvi had released a video through which she once again shielded Muslims and demonised Hindu’s.
In her video message, Saba Naqvi cites the examples of a few good Muslims while accusing the Hindu community of indulging in hatred. While Saba Naqvi takes care to use the example of a few good Muslims to whitewash the crimes of a great many more in her viral video, she does not offer the Hindu community the same courtesy. Playing the victim card, Saba Naqvi paints the entire Hindu community as intolerant.
Saba Naqvi makes preposterous insinuations in her video and asks Hindus repeatedly, “What do you want us to do?”, the ‘Us’ being Muslims. Again, Saba Naqvi ought to be careful about not painting the entire Hindu Community in poor light because if the favour is returned, she will be the first to cry victim. Since she answers her own question by saying “Should we all leave?”, we decided it would be a good idea to reverse the gaze for a moment. There are certain things that the Hindu Community would want from the Muslim community. And these are not some unrealistic demands that the deviant sections of the Muslim community would have to try too hard to fulfill.
Senior Editor at The Wire, Arfa Khanum Sherwani give a clean chit to Tablighi Jamaat:
Senior Editor at The Wire, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, has declared the perverts of Tablighi Jamaat innocent and accused the female staff of the MMG Hospital at Ghaziabad, who were victims of the perverts’ sexually predatory behaviour, of indulging in propaganda. The female staff of the hospital had said that the members of the Islamic missionary organization were roaming around their wards naked and were directing lewd gestures at them. However, journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani has proclaimed that they are lying. Arfa Khanum Sherwani said that she refused to believe they will harass or molest women.
Rana Ayyub shares misleading images to demonize frontline warriors:
As India fights Wuhan coronavirus, propagandists masquerading as ‘journalists’ and ‘historians’ seem to have taken upon themselves to spread misinformation. ‘Journalist’ Rana Ayyub took to Twitter to share an old and misleading picture of curfew defaulters being punished as that of migrant labourers to demonize the police personnel who have been sweating it out, risking their own lives to save citizens from the pandemic.
Selective journalism by left-liberal media in India:
A section of ‘selective journalism’ (religion, caste, journalism based on convenience) and ‘selective critiqueism’ (choosing issues for criticism by convenience) have been in the media of the country for a long time. These are the same people, for whom if any Muslim is involved in crime, their narrative would be simple- ‘there is no religion of crime and criminals’ and when the same crime is committed by a Hindu, these people start hopping on one leg, weaving a narrative around ‘Hindu terror’ or ‘Bhagwa terror’.
This is the reason why the left media in India has seen the greatest fall in the eyes of the common masses. People have been able to see through the nefarious designs of these ‘celebrated’ journalists, where they openly endorse a favourite opposition party and unduly target the majority community, in the garb of “secularism”.
In what looks like a small village in Bengal, a group of ‘humanists’ have gathered to distribute food rations to the poor. A man begins reading names from a list. One by one, the poor people of the village come up and collect their humble sack of grain. Hard times also bring out the best in the human spirit.
All of a sudden, the man with the list stops. He has noticed that certain persons have also joined the back of the line to receive food. He raises his voice and tells them to go away.
“You are Hindus,” he says, “Go away. This is not for you. Don’t put your names on the list.”
Terrorism has no religion. But for some people, hunger certainly can. Anyway, I digress.
For now, you might be relieved to learn that this is happening in some village in East Bengal, now called Bangladesh. No such reports from West Bengal. At least not yet.
Borders are a funny thing, especially when drawn arbitrarily across a nation as ancient as Bharat, tearing it into pieces. We can pretend that this video does not matter simply because it is from Bangladesh and not from any part of the Republic of India. We can close our eyes. Or we could see it as a warning about the grim future of those who will not learn from history. The obsessively India hating Arund**ti Roy is right about one thing. The pandemic is a portal. But not in the way she wants us to believe. Through this time portal, we can see what lies on the other side of this tunnel called “Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb.”
In the last two months, the world has been in the throes of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic. And a great crime against humanity has gone unnoticed. Pakistan and Bangladesh have been using this pandemic to starve their Hindu minority.
Discrimination against Hindus in Pakistan amidst coronavirus outbreak
Do not believe even for a moment that the world is merely distracted, too busy looking at other things to care about a handful of people in a poor country. If media has time and space for silly articles suggesting that saying “Bharat” instead of “India” could be a conspiracy against the world, they surely have time to cover what’s happening to Hindus in Pakistan or Bangladesh. The poison drip of Hinduphobia in the Western media has been up and running as if nothing has happened. A random hospital in India becomes the target of a fake story accusing India’s Hindu majority of ‘intolerance’. The story is flashed around the world in a matter of hours.
And it’s not like the world cared about Hindus in Pakistan or Bangladesh when things were ‘normal’.
The world is looking away from the plight of Hindus and deliberately so.
The interesting question is why Hindus of India also seem to be looking away, at best only vaguely aware of what is happening just across the border.
This is where ‘narrative’ becomes so important. See, Indian liberals know perfectly well that nobody can threaten the citizenship any Indian, whether CAA or anything else. Indian liberals know perfectly well that India is not ‘lynchistan.’ And that the recent riots in Delhi were obviously not a genocide.
Why then does the Indian liberal keep telling these lies? One part of it is a simple profit motive. There is a real desire out there to believe the worst about India. This is in countries which are insecure about India rising to the top 5 of world economies and demanding a place at the power table. And where there is a demand, there is always someone willing to sell. Even if it means selling out their own country. The world is a nasty place.
But the real motive goes beyond that. These lies serve a specific purpose. They keep Hindus on the defensive. Unable to see what’s really happening to them. Unable to see how Hindus are being sent on a one way journey out of history. And definitely unable to hear the screams of Hindus across the border in Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are not spirits of the dead calling out to us from the other side. They are living breathing human beings. We have just learned to behave as if they are already dead.
Remember, every moment that we spend defending against liberal attacks on Hanuman stickers, or sarees, or rasam, is a moment we don’t see the big picture of what is happening to us.
Liberals know perfectly well that sarees have nothing to do with so called Hindu nationalism. They are just baiting us, making us thrash around, tiring us out. When we focus our minds on small things, we miss the big picture. That’s their real strategy.
If one billion Hindus in India spoke up in one voice about what is happening to Hindus in Pakistan, would the world still be able to ignore it? Of course not. That is why they pull our leg, keeping us busy debunking absurd allegations of fascism and intolerance.
On CAA, for instance, they make us repeat over and over again, the same easy justification in favor of the law. They are not actually listening. They are buying time. With each passing day, Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh come one step closer to extinction. And we are one day late in realizing what could be coming to us.
The ‘Bhoomi Puja’ ceremony for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which was tentatively scheduled for April 30, has been deferred in view of the lockdown over coronavirus. According to Indian Express report, sources close to Shree Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust said the ‘Bhoomi Puja’ will be postponed for now and the new date for the auspicious occasion will be decided only once lockdown ends
A meeting held among trust members had decided to go ahead with April 30 as the likely date, but nothing was finalised. With the lockdown on, the puja has been deferred for now. Meanwhile, Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust had donated Rs 11 lakh to PM-CARES fund to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
Trustees had met PM Modi
Earlier, the trustees of the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him to the foundation stone laying ceremony of the proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which was supposed to happen in April.
It was reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to visit the holy city of Ayodhya to attend the foundation laying (Bhoomi Puja) ceremony of the proposed Ram temple. However, with coronavirus pandemic, uncertainty looms over the proposed ‘Bhoomi Puja’.
Lord Ram idol shifted to temporary site
On the first day of Chaitra Navratri, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had shifted the Ram Lalla idol to a temporary structure near Manas Bhawan in Ram Janmabhoomi premises.
Ram Lalla idol will be kept there till the construction of the Ram Mandir is completed. The Chief Minister had also presented a cheque of Rs 11 lakhs for the construction of the temple.
Historic Ram Janmabhoomi judgement
In November 2019, in a historic verdict, the Supreme Court handed over the Ram Janmabhoomi site to the Hindus, paving way for the Ram Mandir. The Sunni Waqf Board will be given an alternate 5-acre land on which they could build a mosque should they wish. Earlier this year, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra trust was formed and the Union Government made a symbolic donation of Re 1 to the trust.
