Imams ask Mamata to extend lockdown

Kolkata: An association of imams in West Bengal has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to extend the lockdown in the state till the end of May in the wake of increase in number of novel coronavirus.

In a letter to CM Mamata Banerjee, the Bengal Imams Association, a body of Islamic clerics in the state, wrote, Let people survive first, festivities can wait. The imams urged the Bengal government not to lift the lockdown before Eid, which is on May 25.