When reports of the film being “banned" (which it technically isn’t) started emerging, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh said, “The movie has been banned clearly with a guilty conscience." AAP leader Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi put it in plainer terms, saying: “Since SAD is an alliance partner of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, the Akalis must have exercised their influence over banning the movie."
The party distanced itself somewhat from his comments, with spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema saying, “It will be wrong to comment hypothetically till we do not watch the exact contents." When the trailer hit, SAD MLA Virsa Singh Valtoha remarked that “this film is an outcome of a trend to defame Punjab and its youth". The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-which has been in power since 2007 in the state, in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-seems to have had its eye on Udta Punjab from the start.
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