Chandigarh, Sep 29 (Inditop.com) Night clubs like F-Bar and other discotheques in Haryana’s millennium city of Gurgaon and other places in the state have some cause to worry.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday announced in its election manifesto for Haryana’s assembly poll next month that if it comes to power in the state, it will bring in legislation to ban western music and vulgarity in the name of culture.
The party’s election manifesto was released here by senior BJP leader and former central government minister Arun Jaitley in the presence of BJP leaders from the state.
“In the name of culture, western music and vulgarity will be banned through law,” Haryana BJP president Krishan Pal Gujjar told reporters here in the presence of Jaitley.
The party’s manifesto also listed the same point.
However, when asked to clarify on this issue, Gujjar did a turnaround saying that the party was only against vulgarity and not against western music.
“Moreover, we don’t want the western culture to affect the state’s rural areas,” he said.
Jaitley, a senior Delhi-based lawyer, avoided speaking on the issue.
Gurgaon city, adjoining national capital Delhi, has scores of IT and other professionals working for multi-national and leading Indian companies. The place has a number of night clubs, high-end bars and discotheques which are frequented by the professionals to unwind.
The BJP, which is contesting all 90 assembly seats in the state alone this time in the Oct 13 poll, has never been a formidable force in Haryana’s political arena. It has been part of governments in Haryana only as a second fiddle to other parties and is unlikely to make major gains in this assembly poll.
In the previous assembly that was dissolved August this year for early elections, the BJP had only one legislator in the 90-member house.
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