Chandigarh, July 7 — A major political controversy has erupted following the censorship of the film Satluj, with the ruling state party claiming that multiple political entities have historically failed the family of celebrated human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra.
The biographical feature depicts the extensive research conducted at cremation grounds in Tarn Taran during a highly sensitive decade in the state’s past. The party claimed that current central leaders and former state managers are deeply uncomfortable with the film’s contents, leading to its immediate extraction from digital networks.
AAP Punjab Media Incharge Baltej Pannu affirmed, “Jaswant Singh Khalra headed the Human Rights Wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal and painstakingly documented records from cremation grounds in Tarn Taran, proving that many of the so-called unidentified bodies actually belonged to people whose disappearances had never been accounted for.”
The representative targeted regional leadership for failing to implement historical promises, noting that commitments to establish an investigative Truth Commission in the late nineties were abandoned in favor of promoting controversial officials. He stated that contemporary social media expressions of sympathy from these groups stand in direct opposition to their past governance records.
The administration drew parallels to historical intimidation tactics used against key legal witnesses in the human rights cases, pointing out that false charges were previously fabricated to suppress the truth before being overturned by courts.
Baltej Pannu declared, “If the Akali Dal was genuinely committed to justice, why did it fail the Khalra family when they needed support the most?” He reiterated that the ruling party stands firmly against political censorship and demands the film be made accessible to the public immediately.
