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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.<\/p>\n
\"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.<\/p>\n
\"This is a plot to destroy our ancient Indian culture by promoting Western culture and their electronic dance festivals,\" he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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