Badruddin Ajmal, a former ally of the Congress party, demanded the Central government and the Government of Assam must ban the film in order to avoid communal tensions.
A few days after Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency, the then Information and Broadcasting minister VC Shukla, a close aide of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, wanted Bollywood to promote the 20-point program on All India Radio and Doordarshan.