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Diljit Dosanjh once again gave an open challenge to the government. Additionally, he also responded to the issues raised in the media over his singing songs related to ‘alcohol’. Recently, the Telangana government had raised objections to the songs related to alcohol, especially songs like ‘Patiala Peg’ and ‘Panj Tara’ during her Dil Luminati Tour. The government had requested Diljit to keep these songs out of his concerts.
While performing in Lucknow on November 22, Diljit reacted to this and said, ‘I have no competition with anyone, there is no ‘versus’. Ever since I started the India tour, whether it was Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad, there were very lovely people. Ahmedabad and now Lucknow. I feel very good to be in Lucknow. Getting a lot of love. Thank you friends.
Then Diljit said, ‘A few days ago he was challenging me to show Diljit a hit song without ‘sharab’. For your information, let me tell you that there are many of my songs which stream more on Spotify than ‘Patiala Peg’. So your challenge has become useless.
‘I already have a lot of songs which are hits. Much more than ‘Patiala Peg’. So here is his answer. Second, I am not defending my songs. I’m not defending myself. I just want that if you want to impose censorship on songs, then that censorship should happen in Indian cinema also. Right.’
Diljit said, ‘Which big actor in Indian cinema has not done a song or a scene on alcohol? Is anyone missing? I can’t remember anything. So if you have to impose censorship, please impose it on everyone. That’s all I want to say. I will stop from that very day. Let’s leave the government aside. He himself said that let the government remain, then let it remain. You apply the same censorship in songs as is there in Indian cinema.
‘Artists seem like soft targets to you, so you tease them. But let me tell you that the films I have done have also received the National Award. So our work is not cheap work. It does not happen that we write that alcohol is injurious to health and start singing songs. These two things are not the same. It should not happen. It will seem as if you are targeting a specific person. So if you have spread this wrong news, then it is called… Fake News. And has she been hurt by me spreading fake news? no way. Am I angry, do you think from my face. So I am not. It is your moral responsibility to spread correct news. So I also challenge you to show the right news please.