Allow Yakshagana shows to go on till midnight, administration urged

Prasangas already booked are getting cancelled due to night curfew

Owners of different Yakshagana Melas (troupes) on Tuesday urged the Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner to allow melas to perform prasangas till at least midnight in view of night curfew being enforced till January 7.

Meeting Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra under the banner of BJP Kale and Samskruthika Prakoshta, the owners informed the administration that hundreds of people depending on Yakshagana were already hit hard because of the COVID-19 pandemic since two years.

Without there being any performances, artists are not getting salaries and have been leading a difficult life. At a time when the situation appeared to be returning to normal, imposition of night curfew again has brought misery to the artists, they said. Performances already booked are getting cancelled as the programmes cannot be held during the night now.