Tickets for Diljit Dosanjh concert sold within 10 mins

Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati Tour’s grand finale show is all set to be held in Ludhiana at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) on December 31.

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The sale of tickets for the event went live yesterday at 2 pm and were sold out within 10 minutes. There were four category tickets and all were sold within a blink of an eye. It has been learnt that now the tickets are being sold at a premium. People are advertising about these tickets on social media and WhatsApp group. The tickets of gold category are being sold in lakhs.

A city resident said soon after the concert was sold out, people who had bought the tickets started selling these on a premium. Recently amid allegations that tickets of his tour being resold at exorbitant prices, the singer had reacted by saying that, “For a long time, people in our country have been saying that the tickets are being sold on a premium. But it’s not my fault.”

Navra, a young girl at Khalsa College here said, “The day it was confirmed that Diljit Dosanjh will wrap up the tour in Ludhiana, I asked my father to provide me Rs 25,000 and got five silver tickets, of which three were sold last night at a profit.”

“Many friends, who could not make it then, were disappointed and had said if the show happened in Ludhiana, they would definitely go. Realising this, I purchased two fan-pit tickets and two gold and silver tickets. I sold the fan pit tickets for Rs 18,000 each and hope to sell the remaining by tomorrow,” said Krishnam (name changed), a student at SCD Government College.

A blogger wishing not to be named said that she had had purchased 10 different sections of tickets. “I will not be having any problem in selling these,” she said. Although after his recent concert in Chandigarh he had announced that he won’t perform in India till the time proper infrastructure was developed and this concert came as a special surprise for his fans and that too on New Year Eve.

According to sources, PAU authorities were reluctant to give their ground for the venue but they had to budge under pressure. “It takes lot of time and effort to build infrastructure which is destroyed within hours,” said a source.

Teja Singh Dhaliwal, general secretary of Punjab Basketball Association, said that such events leave the ground in bad shape and then it takes months to repair the same.

Diljit has a special connection with Ludhiana as he had spent his childhood years here. Born in Jalandhar, he was sent to live with his maternal uncle when he was just 11. He did his schooling from Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School.