{"id":314622,"date":"2019-08-13T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314622"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:15:57","slug":"punjab-to-bring-law-soon-against-artists-promoting-drugs-reports-rajuwilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-to-bring-law-soon-against-artists-promoting-drugs-reports-rajuwilliam\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to bring law soon against artists promoting drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302250 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drugsss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/drugsss-762x420.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/>Chandigarh, August 13, 2019: \u00a0Punjab government is brining law soon entailing action against Punjabi artistes promoting drugs through their artistic performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stating this, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday also appealed the artists hailing from Punjab to not encourage drugs in their songs and films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minister expressed concern over the issue of Punjab youth caught up in cobweb of drugs and said that the films and songs by Punjabi artists have encouraged this trend. The minister emphasized that drugs should not at all be glorified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is the duty of the Punjabi artists to present real picture of the Punjabi culture before the world so as to dispel the wrong notions about the State, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Committing his support to the government\u2019s move,\u00a0prominent Punjab folk singerr Pammi Bai on the occasion aired his view that strong action is needed against the glorification of drugs through Punjabi singers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also called upon the art and music lovers to create a people\u2019s movement against the menace of drugs and also called for the social boycott of the artists glorifying drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, August 13, 2019: \u00a0Punjab government is brining law soon entailing action against Punjabi artistes promoting drugs through their artistic performances. Stating this, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday also appealed the artists hailing from Punjab to not encourage drugs in their songs and films. The minister expressed concern over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[11744,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314623,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314622\/revisions\/314623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}