SGPC: MTV has hurt Sikhs sentiments
The SGPC on Tuesday said that MTV has hurt the sentiments of Sikhs & the attack on MTV Studio in Mumbai yesterday was “spontaneous” reaction by some members of the community. Avtar Singh Makkar, president of SGPC, said that “no one has the right to hurt the sentiments of Sikhs”. He said, “It is not for the first time that our sentiments have been hurt”.
A group of Sikhs had on Monday attacked the office of MTV in central Mumbai alleging misrepresentation of their community in the publicity campaign. The poster of “On the job”, a career based reality show soon to be aired by the channel, showed a woman massaging a man while a Sikh youth looked on.
Makkar said these incidents are taking place despite SGPC’s “repeated requests to the Centre to induct its representatives in Censor Board or any other organisations that can check contents of movies or serials involving Sikhs”.
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