Indian weddings are famous for their extravagance and a wave of new money in the country has led to ever more lavish marriage celebrations, often involving multi-cuisine buffets and hundreds, or even thousands, of guests.
"We are looking into the possibility of reintroducing the executive guest control order created in the early 1960s," an official at the ministry of food and consumer affairs in New Delhi said.
The rules limited the number of guests at weddings and other functions to deal with the scarcity of food, he said.
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Such a potentially unpopular move attracted sharp criticism from the opposition, which called the proposal "absurd and obnoxious".
