CHANDIGARH: Punjab Local Bodies, Culture and Tourism minister Navjot Singh Sidhu is under fire again, this time for lack of propriety in the Kapil Sharma comedy show for his alleged vulgar and obscene dialogues with double meaning.
Advocate of Punjab and Haryana High Court HC Arora, who recently filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in court against cricketer-turned-politician Sidhu and the Punjab government has on Sunday written a letter to Punjab chief secretary Karan A Singh drawing his attention to the alleged vulgarity in the show.
“I viewed the “Kapil Sharma Show” on Saturday from 9 pm to around 10.15 pm. The “comedy” of Kapil Sharma, and particularly that of Navjot Singh Sidhu was replete with vulgar, double-meanings and obscene dialogues. It violated various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, as well as those of the Information and Technology (IT) Act. Their dialogues offended my conscience while viewing the show along with my wife and daughters,’’ stated the letter.
It further read, “Although I am yet to procure a recorded version of the utterances of these two comedians, yet on the basis of whatever I can recollect, Sidhu told Kapil Sharma “Kapil, you please get married, otherwise after crossing 40-years of age, you shall lose your reproductive capacity.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu further elaborated, saying “An old man once went to the toilet to attend nature’s call, when he returned he saw that he had not fastened the button of his pant. When asked for the reason, he replied, a road that has no treasure, what is the point of putting a lock to it?”
What Sidhu wanted to bring home to the audience was that an old man need not button up his pants, as he being virtually impotent, cannot harm any woman,’’ added the letter.
Arora requested the chief secretary to convey his feelings to Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh.
He wrote, “I would, therefore, call upon you to convey my feelings to chief minister, that the situation has reached such alarming proportions that the chief minister must rein his colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu.’’