aurangabad the muchawaited fourday elloraajanta festival which was to begin from november 28 has been cancelled in view of the terror attacks in mumbai which claimed over 100 people including top police officialsthe decision to cancel the festival was taken by the festival committee at a meeting held at the divisional commissionerate here on thursday the meeting was presided over by divisional commissioner dilip band the meeting paid homage to victims of the attacks district collector and chairman of the festival subcommittee sanjeev jaiswal said the ticket charges will be refunded to the publicall the preparations had been made for the festival and artists had also begun to arrive in the town but it is not appropriate to organise a cultural event in view of the tragedy that has hit the country all the festival programmes stand cancelled he saidthe festival had received an overwhelming response as a large number of tickets were sold during the last week people can take their money back from the counter to be set up at tapadia natya mandir on november 29 and 30 jaiswal addedmeanwhile the maharashtra tourism development corporation too has cancelled cultural programmes being organised as part of the 10day shilpotsav which started seven days ago mtdc senior manager chandrashekhar jaiswal said we have decided to cancel the cultural programme while the exhibition of art and artefacts will continue he added