Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) Days after former Goa Minister Vinod Palienkar likened trance music to the music of demons, a right wing group in Goa on Monday demanded a ban on electronic dance music, especially the Sunburn Klassique music festival, alleging such events were a plot to destroy ancient Indian culture.
“The Sunburn festival is encouraging and imposing western ill-influence on society, thereby making it ‘pleasure-seeking’ and immoral! It is destroying the Hindu culture and spoiling the name of Goa and Goans,” Manoj Solanki, convenor of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, told a press conference here on Monday.
“This is a plot to destroy our ancient Indian culture by promoting Western culture and their electronic dance festivals,” he said.
The last week of December in Goa is marked by a string of popular electronic dance music festivals and events, including Sunburn Klassique, which are thronged by thousands of music lovers.
Solanki also pointed out two incidents where young girls had succumbed to drug overdose while partying during music festivals in Goa in the recent past.
On December 8, Goa Forward MLA and former Fisheries Minister Vinod Palienkar had demanded a ban on trance music festivals, claiming that they played the music of demons.
–IANS
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