Covid Norms Go For A Toss At BJP MLA’s Wedding In Maharashtra; Check Pics

Social distancing norms were flouted at a BJP MLA's wedding here, with hundreds of people attending it and many of them, including senior party leaders, not bothering to wear masks.

Viral videos of the wedding showed state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis intearcting with people at close quarters without wearing masks.

Ram Satpute, a first term MLA from Malshiras assembly constituency in Solapur district got married in Erandwane area of Pune on Sunday.

भाजपचे माळशिरसचे आमदार राम सातपुते यांचा विवाह सोहळा पुण्यात पार पडला. यावेळी भाजप परिवारातील सर्व नेत्यांनी उपस्थित राहून वधूवरांस शुभाशीर्वाद व पुढील वाटचालीसाठी शुभेच्छा दिल्या.@RamVSatpute नांदा सौख्य भरे! pic.twitter.com/WjGAC1Xdcm

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The videos show that no social distancing was followed at the wedding. Maharashtra government's unlock guidelines stipulate that up to 50 people can attend a marriage ceremony, but hundreds were seen at the ceremony, many of them without masks.

Police inspector Sanjivan Jagdale of Alankar police station, under whose jurisdiction the marriage venue falls, said there was "no big crowd at a time as the attendees kept coming and going after blessing the couple."

No police complaint has been filed in this matter so far, the police inspector said.