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A day after the state police booked rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh and producer Bhushan Kumar over lewd lyrics in the singer’s new song, Punjab State Women Commission head Manisha Gulati on Wednesday demanded a censor board for songs too.
She urged the famous Punjabi singer Gurdas Mann to persuade singers and producers against vulgar songs.
“I strongly demand that a censor board must be constituted for the songs in line with the censor board for films,” Gulati said.
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“Songs have a very crucial role to either make or mar a society. The song ‘Makhna’ sung by Honey Singh has played a catastrophic role to misguide the youngsters by its lewd lyrics,” she said in a statement.
Gulati said the kind of vulgar language used in the song ‘Makhna’ has crossed all boundaries and it badly demeaned womanhood.
She demanded exemplary punishment for the singer as that would be a lesson for other singers and producers.