Amaravati, Apr 4 (): Calling the Tablighi Jamaatcongregation in New Delhi last month a "spiritual event,Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy onSaturday appealed to people not to give it a religious colourand also not see it as a crime.
In a recorded video message, the Chief Ministerremarked that such things could have happened even in otherreligious events.
"It is unfortunate that the disease has spread fromthe congregation in which several spiritual delegates fromsome foreign countries too participated. Some of thoseforeigners had coronavirus and it got transmitted to ourpeople.
But we should not attribute it (the disease spread) toany religion or caste and treat those people as deliberatewrongdoers. Nobody should see them as if they committed acrime," Jagan said in his eight-minute message.
"We have spiritual leaders like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar(Art of Living), Jaggi Vasudev (Isha Foundation), MataAmritanandamayi, Paul Dinakaran or John Wesley. They havethousands and lakhs of followers in India and abroad and theycould participate in their events. Such things could havehappened in such gatherings as well," he observed.
Jagan said such incidents should only be seen as"unfortunate" and not "deliberate" and attribute it to areligion.
Efforts to project them in such light were unfortunateand would do no good to convey a message that "we are allone."
The Chief Minister said coronavirus victims should beshown compassion and not distanced.
"Coronavirus has no religion, nor a medicine. It hasno rich-poor discrimination. It also has no differentiationbetween countries. In this battle, our enemy is the invisiblevirus called corona," he noted.
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call toall Indians to light lamps for nine minutes at 9 pm on April5, the Chief Minister said the lights should convey themessage "we are one" without any borders of caste, religion orregion. DBV
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