Guwahati: The BJP has filed an FIR against Assamese singer Zubeen Garg for allegedly insulting the Bharat Ratna award. Incidentally, it was Garg’s campaign song that played a major role in helping the BJP win the 2016 state polls.
The FIR was filed after an audio clip went viral on WhatsApp. In the FIR, the BJP states that the singer used ‘unparliamentary’ words and defamed the country’s highest civilian honour. It has been filed Saturday by Satya Ranjan Borah, the state vice-president of the BJP at the Lanka Police Station in Hojai district of Assam.
The FIR has been lodged for ‘defaming, disrespecting and insulting nation’s highest recognition the Bharat Ratna and defaming and insulting voice and pride of Assam late Bhupen Hazarika.
In the clip, Garg is heard singing his new song ‘Politics Na Karibo Bandhu’ (Don’t Do Politics, My Friend), before allegedly using an abusive term for the ‘Bharat Ratna’.
“I don’t have any personal problem with Zubeen Garg, but the way he has been behaving cannot be accepted for a healthy and cultured Assamese society,” Borah wrote in a Facebook post.
Agencies