The Goa government has withdrawn the permission granted to the organizers of Sunburn electronic dance music festival to hold the event in the state in December this year. The move comes in the wake of criticism being faced by the BJP government in the state after it gave its approval to organize the festival amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Congress party had objected in the city on Friday against the decision to permit Sunburn to be organized in the state. On Friday evening, state Tourism Minister Manohar  Ajgaonkar said that the department has determined to withdraw the permission granted to the organizers of Sunburn 2020.

The decision has been taken in the light of the pandemic situation in Goa. We don't want huge crowds to gather as it can lead to the spread of the virus, he added. The festival was scheduled to be held from December 27 to 29 at Vagator village in North Goa.

Percept Live, the company which organizes this event, had said that they were given in-principle approval by the Tourism Department's State-Level Program Committee (SLPC) to host the festival. The organizers had said on Friday that they were ready to cancel the festival if the pandemic situation worsens in the state. They had also said that the event would be held by obeying all the social distancing norms.

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