Manjari Chaturvedi, a well-known Kathak dancer, was allegedly forced to stop her performance midway at an event organised by the UP government in Lucknow on Thursday-evening, allegedly because she was performing on a qawwali a form of Sufi devotional music. Ms Chaturvedi alleged that while she was performing on the qawwali, the music was stopped and an announcement was made for the next act.