Referring to the movie Sukha-Jinda, which reportedly proposes to portray the two assassins of former Army Chief General AS Vaidya as heroes, Punjab Education Minister Daljeet Singh Cheema said the Central Board of Film Certification should keep a check on issuing certification to such films. Sunil Jakhar, Congress Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, said that makers of such movies, who wanted to cash in on incidents such as assassinations, must be socially boycotted. Both leaders were here to participate in a function of the Shaheed Parivar Fund function. Talking to reporters, Dr Cheema said it is the duty of the Censor Board to issue certificates only to those films that fulfill its parameters. It was recently that Kaum De Heere, a movie portraying the assassins of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was banned from release in India in order to avoid incidents of communal tension. Narco-terrorism ‘Narco-terrorism’ was the main subject at the Shaheed Parivar Fund event, which was organised for the victims of terrorism. The function was attended by representatives from the Congress, SAD, BJP and INLD. Every speaker, from Punjab and other states, took up the issue. The speakers said that now when Punjab had emerged from the black days of terrorism, it had fallen into the grip of ‘narco-terrorism’. They said it was time the menace was addressed. Also, they said that during the days of terrorism, the state had already lost many young lives. According to them, narco-terrorism was more damaging, with 70 per cent of the youth taking to one or the other form of drugs.
