Some ask why political rallies are still being held but they have to sufferThe government’s restrictions on participants at a wedding, has affected the band operators at these functions, already reeling under losses from last year’s lockdown. Around 90 per cent of the 20 thousand marriages scheduled during the wedding season of April, May, June and July have been cancelled while the remaining 10 per cent are not opting for a band. Manjit Kumar Soni, operator of one of the oldest band party based at Purana Bazar locality of Dhanbad said, “We had 200 bookings for the entire marriage season beginning from April 19 to July 15 but with new restriction limiting participants to 50 persons, around 90% of these bookings have been cancelled.”“Majority of the instrument players come from Darbhanga, Samastipur, and some from Asansol and we have to pay them in advance. Due to cancelations we are going to suffer huge losses,” he said. “My simple question to the government and administration is that if the virus has not spread during the political rallies and meetings, how can it spread during the marriages,” Soni added.

Source: The Telegraph April 21, 2021 11:15 UTC