Efforts on to scuttle Navjot Sidhu’s YouTube channel through fake IDs, alleges administrator

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 16

Two days after former cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu started his YouTube channel ‘Jittega Punjab’, its chief administrator on Monday alleged that Anti-Punjab forces were trying to scuttle Jittega Punjab’s direct connect with the people through fake IDs.

Smit Singh, chief administrator, said attempts were being made to create an illusion as these elements are apprehensive of Sidhu’s direct connect with people. While others are doing this for personal viewership gains, he claimed.

He said hundreds of fake YouTube Channels had cropped up in minutes of the channel’s launch, proving that professionals were handling the deliberate mechanism to scuttle Sidhu’s direct connect with the masses.

Punjabi was used as the first language on the firm insistence of Sidhu, thereby causing some confusion for majority of the viewers who usually search in Roman letters; however, there was no compromise on the issue, he said.

The channel was launched on March 14, two days after its registration.

YouTube has been sending copyright strike notices to illegally re-uploaded videos and sending impersonation notices to fake channels.

He said YouTube had been requested to enable a preventative mechanism so that such dubious acts were nipped in the bud. An awareness campaign had been started by young Punjabis on Facebook and Instagram, who had taken up the cudgels on Sidhu’s behalf, he added.

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