Navjot Singh Sidhu Sacked From Kapil Sharma Show For His Comments On Pulwama Attack

Published - 16 Feb 2019, 03:57 PM | Updated - 22 Aug 2024, 11:59 PM

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Kapil Sharma Show
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The other night was one of the hard days to digest for the Indian citizen, as they lost the services of a few incredible persons working for the safety of the country. The suicidal bomb attack saw 40 CRPF jawans losing their lives at Pulwama. Meanwhile, speaking of the same, Navjot Singh Sidhu made his voice on the attack asking to punish the ugly in the Pakistan country.

Shock, grief and outrage spread across the nation. The globe with countries from the US to Russia condemning the attack. Pakistan has been blamed for the attack by India as well as the US, where the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed is based. In between, Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing.

The team decided to keep him away from the show:

Earlier, Navjot Singh Sidhu, during a media interaction spoke about the attack and said, “Nations cannot be held responsible for the dastardly acts of terrorists. The terrorists do not have deen, Mazhab (sect and religion). There are good, the bad and the ugly. Every institution has it. Every nation has them. The ugly need to be punished. But individuals cannot be blamed for the dastardly act.”

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Navjot Singh Sidhu, Kapil Sharma Show
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Meanwhile, the Indian citizen didn’t take the comments lightly, as they let their outburst on social media sites asking to sack Navjot Singh Sidhu from the famous show named ”The Kapil Sharma Show”, which got a huge fan base across the country.

Regarding the same, the channel and the show producers aren’t impressed with the comments by Navjot Singh Sidhu. In order to run the show cleanly, they decided to sack the former Indian cricketer with immediate effect.

Navjot Singh Sidhu (Credits: AFP)

A source shared with indianexpress.com, “His remarks have not been taken kindly by most. Also, the channel and the show was getting dragged into the unwanted controversy. This is when the team amicably decided that Navjot make a distance from the show. The team has already shot a couple of episodes with Archana.”

However, this is a great reaction from SonyTv, as they never entertained any such controversies. Earlier, in a competition Indian Idol 10, the judge Anu Malik was sacked when his name was on the list in the #Metoo campaign.

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