kapurthala the punjab governments much hyped publicity vans ran into yet another controversy after the congress on saturday alleged that the vehicles were being used to screen a movie on 1984 riots to incite voters against them ahead of 2017 elections the allegations were reported to the kapurthala police which denied that any such movie was screenedthe incident happened when congress workers and sarpanches of some kapurthala villages stopped the van in dubarji they were joined by kapurthala mla rana gurjit singh while it is difficult for anyone to forget what happened at that time we cannot divide people over it but government is misusing its authority to use vans for electoral gains said gurjitkapurthala police said that they no intimation from the punjab public relations department so far on any movie on the riots we have been told that the only movies which are being screened from the van are on the sikh history they are char sahibzaade and some rangla punjab music there was some law and order situation and we had sent our local sho from kotwali to gauge the situation he has briefed us that there was no movie on 1984 riots said rajinder singh senior superintendent of police ssp kapurthalagurjit however said that congress would approach the election commission which should take a stringent view of such official machinery being used to sway votes akali dal just wants to keep the 1984 riots issue alive and use it after every five years during the time of elections the moment the elections are over you will forget everything including 1984 as you have been doing for the last 30 years even now you are in power at the centre and instead of trying to provoke and polarize people you should ask modi to take some action said gurjit