Farmers Movement Archive

Punjab actor sends legal notice to BJP

Perturbed over his photograph on a poster of Punjab BJP’s official Facebook page showing him associated with the BJP’s pro-farmer policies campaign, actor Harpreet Singh, who is participating in the farmers’ protest against the Centre’s farm laws at Singhu border, has sent a legal notice to the BJP to tender an apology “for misusing his photo without consent”. The State unit of the BJP, meanwhile, passed the buck to the Central government, stating that the content and photograph were shared by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. “It’s [photograph] there on our Facebook page. The Agriculture Ministry [Central government] had sent the content [on successful government purchase of crops at Minimum Support Price in 2020-21] in which the photograph was also there, and we uploaded it. It’s for them to verify whose photograph has been used,” Janardhan Sharma, a spokesperson of the Punjab BJP, told The Hindu on Wednesday. Mr. Harpreet Singh’s counsel Hakam Singh said a legal notice had been sent to the BJP, asking the party to remove the photograph from the social media platform [Facebook] and tender an apology.

The Hindu

2020-12-24

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