Maharashtra directly left a super-speader occasion like the mid-March Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area. A much larger Tablighi Ijtema, with an estimated attendance of around 45,000 delegates, was to be arranged in Vasai, neighbouring Mumbai, on March 14 and15
However, the House Department moved quickly in the very first week of March and convinced the organisers to cancel the occasion. Verifying this, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, in an exclusive interview with The Hindu, explained how the government understood the inherent risk of such a substantial gathering well in time and worked out with the organisers to cancel the program.
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