Tik Tok and the Ruckus Around It
TikTok, owned by the ByteDance, is a China-based social video sharing app which is immensely popular in India, especially youth, as the country has about 200 million users. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), an administrative unit of Amritsar's Golden Temple has initialised this ban as objections were raised by the devotees on surfacing the videos on social media platforms. Hence, the management curtailed the visitors from using the app in the temple.Jaswinder Singh, manager of Harmandir Saheb said, "We appeal to devotees coming here to refrain from such activities as it is a place of worship". Notices that read "TikTok is prohibited here" were put up by the management.
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The Reason Behind the Ban!
This initiative of prohibiting TikTok is taken because of the recurrent incidents that took place in the precincts of the temple. A Tik Tok video of three girls dancing on a Punjabi song in the temple complex went viral, and also a police complaint was filed against a girl after she shot a video inside the Darbar Sahib as it had hurt the religious sentiments of the devotees. These videos were viewed by the management, prompting them to take action against these types of activities.
Earlier, SGPC did prohibit people from photography and filming videos, but the implementation was not strict. However, frequent incidents forced the management to swing into action, and the employees of the Golden Temple were told to be more vigilant.
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