YouTube removes Haryana singer's song on SYL canal

Hisar, July 2

YouTube on Saturday removed Haryanvi singer Ramkesh Jeewanpuria’s song on the theme of Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal from his official YouTube channel.

Jeewanpuria had released the after Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s song on SYL was released posthumously.

Hisar-based YouTuber Rajesh Kundu had objected to the usage of an interview clip of a Haryana farmer in Jeewanpuria’s song, stating that the singer had used the video clip from his YouTube channel ‘The Ink’ and ‘The Agro’ in a wrong manner.

Kundu said the farmer was vouching for the unity of Haryana and Punjab in the interview with him during the farmers’ agitation, but the clip has been misrepresented in Jeewanpuria’s song to make it look like that it talks about divisions in Haryana and Punjab on SYL.

“It is a completely wrong portrayal of the feelings of the farmer,” Kundu alleged.

Rajesh Kundu has served a legal notice to the Jind-based singer Jeewanpuria and also wrote to YouTube regarding content piracy.

Following the complaint, YouTube removed the song from the official YouTube channel of the singer.

Jeewanpuria’s song “SYL” had taken a dig at the brotherhood in the farmers’ movement of Haryana and Punjab and made use of confrontational language, he stated.