Chandigarh, April 23
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi drawing his urgent attention to the web series planned to be aired by an OTT platform named ‘Lawrence of Punjab’, based on the life of the dreaded and notorious criminal/gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
Warring wrote to the Prime Minister that the movie/series aims to glorify someone who has been involved in so many gruesome crimes, including the brutal murder of the most popular Punjabi singer, Sidhu Moosewala. “We in Punjab have strong objections to this series for many reasons”, he said, adding, “one, Punjab is the holy land of Gurus, Rishi and Pirs. You have yourself spent a lot of time in Punjab. You know Punjab’s history and culture as much”. “Should such a holy land with a glorious history and culture be identified with a gangster?” he asked.
Second, Warring added, glorifying crime and the gangster culture can leave a dangerous and disastrous impact on the impressionable young minds, which might well get drawn towards crime. “Instead of discouraging crime and gangster culture, which we all should aspire for, the web series will glorify it”, he warned. Asserting that Punjab does not need any introduction, he said, identifying Punjab with a criminal and a gangster like Lawrence Bishnoi is an insult to Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiyat.
“We must nip the evil in the bud and we seek your personal intervention to ban the series from getting aired”, Warring noted while urging the Prime Minister “to kindly issue directions to the ministries of Information and Broadcasting and the Information Technology to ban the release of the web series”.
