Celebrities like Ranvir Shorey and Ehsaan Noorani expressed their displeasure over the Nizamuddin incident. Ranvir Shorey wrote that the congregation had ‘more than made up’ for the efforts to keep infections down with the help of the ongoing 21-day national lockdown. Ehsaan, of the famed Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, termed it ‘unbelievable’ that ‘lockdown and quarantine rules’ were being ignored by those in the Nizamuddin incident. He added that no community was immune to the virus and that it was important to follow the rules at a time where health workers were facing an uphill battle to contain the virus.
The Telangana government confirmed that six persons from the state died after attending the congregation. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has called for an FIR to be registered against the Maulana of the Markaz where the gathering had taken place. As per ANI, 300-400 persons attended the gathering and 163 of them from Nizamuddin have been admitted to various hospitals in Delhi over chances of them contracting the virus. However, the point to note is that the congregation had gathered much before the lockdown declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.