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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the Akali-BJP government’s move to block the telecast of Zee Punjabi in Punjab.
“This is an authoritarian and autocratic, dictatorial and draconian move by this government”, the former Chief Minister said in a statement from New York today, while remarking, “it only betrays their frustration and fear psychosis”.
Capt Amarinder reiterated his commitment that he will finish Badals’ monopoly on everything whether the television channels, cable distribution, sand mining, transport or the liquor business.
“By blocking television news channels you cannot block the truth which will emerge in any case”, he told the Badals while reminding them that no dictator howsoever powerful and authoritarian he may have behaved has survived the public fury.
“By closing your eyes you cannot escape the doom that is staring at your face”, he told Badals, adding no matter how many dictatorial and authoritarian steps they may take, they will not be seen in Punjab beyond 2017.
Capt Amarinder said, the blocking of television news channels like Zee Punjabi, ABP Sanjha, Day and Night and others has only reinforced the public belief that the Bdals’ countdown has begun and they are now trying to escape the reality.
He pointed out, the Badals have from time to time regularly blocked even the advertisements to various newspapers in a desperate bid to make these fall in line and have failed repeatedly.
“Old habits die hard”, he remarked about Badals, while adding, “but such habits have to die down eventually and these certainly will and I will ensure that”.
