Umar Khalid went on to claim that if Aaditya Thackeray was present at the venue, he would not have shared the stage with him. Further, Khalid said that the young leader of 'secular' Shiv Sena has not stated a clear stand on the issue of the NPR.
Anwar and another person identified as Niyaz had allegedly sent such messages and had even contacted RSS workers and youths to ask them to oppose CAA and NRC by putting out messages on WhatsApp.
While granting conditional permission, the SDM had put up 17 points before the Jain community. The 15th point stated that the permission is being granted only for anti-CAA event. The rest were concerning the "dos and don'ts" for the organisers as Section 144 was in force.