Kangana Ranaut starrer Emergency is all set to hit the big screens on 17th January 2025. |
Chandigarh: Expressing its strong objection to the “Emergency’’ film made by BJP MP Kangana Ranaut, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Thursday, asked the Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to ban the film in the state.
The said film is being released on January 17, 2025.
In a letter written to the Punjab chief minister Mann by the SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami, said that if this film is released in Punjab, the SGPC will strongly oppose it at the state-level.
Known as the mini-parliament of the Sikhs, SGPC is a representative body of Sikhs living across the world.
Stating that the SGPC had also written to the state chief secretary, DGP and all the deputy commissioners showing its dissent against the film, the letter said that the SGPC had also earlier demanded the film to be shown to the representatives of the Sikh body prior to its release.
It may be recalled that Dhami had also demanded an immediate ban on the film ‘Emergency’, which he held portrays the character of Sikhs in a wrong way in August last year when its teaser was released.
He had alleged that this film has been made by actress Kangana Ranaut, who remains in controversy due to her anti-Sikh and anti-Punjab expressions with the intention of deliberately character assassinating Sikhs, which the Sikh community cannot tolerate.
He had also held that the community can never forget the anti-Sikh brutality of June 1984 and Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale has been declared a “community’s martyr’’ by Sri Akal Takht Sahib, while Kangana Ranaut’s film is trying to character assassinate him.