Singers promoting gun culture: Congress

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, June 22

Taking strong exception to Punjabi singers promoting gun culture and inciting youth for violence through their songs, former president of the District Youth Congress (DYC) Rajiv Raja has urged the police to initiate criminal proceedings against them.

In a memorandum submitted to Ludhiana Commissioner of Police Rakesh Agrawal here today, Raja alleged that Punjabi singers such as Jazzy B (Jaswinder Singh Bains) and Diljit Dosanjh were promoting the culture of fire arms and pushing the youth towards crime through their songs and gun-wielding videos.

He said a majority of students and youth consider singers and actors as their idols and tended to follow message given by them through their songs. “If immediate remedial measures are not taken to curb this dangerous trend, the future of youth would become dark and they would fall prey to criminal actions,” he added.

Raja said he would also meet Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and Cabinet Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu to apprise them with threat posed from songs espousing violence and gun culture and to emphasise the need to put such singers behind bars.