The bride’s ready, the groom’s ready and finally, so is the chopper. Twenty-five-year-old Harmel Singh can fly down tomorrow from Sultanpur to Rupinder Kaur in Ludhiana in style, just as his USwale uncle had promised the bride. And the permission for the chopper was clinched yesterday, even as Harmel’s uncle Harbans Singh Dhillon reached Ludhiana for the marriage.‘‘My US-based uncle told my in-laws that the groom will come in a chopper for the wedding,’’ says Harmel, who is engaged in farming. ‘‘We rented the chopper from a Delhi-based private company for Rs 4.5 lakh. All this expenditure is being incurred by my uncle.’’ The distance is just about 30 km but Dhillon had promised the girl from Meerapur village in Kurukshetra that her bridegroom would fly in, he adds.There has been take-off trouble, though. The application, written in the name of Suchcha Singh, a former sarpanch of Tashpur village in Kapurthala district, was first sent to DSP Sukhdev Singh Kahlon on June 29.Kahlon said the application was addressed to the Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner (DC) and sought permission to land a private chopper at Nagpal Resort on Pakowal Road. ‘‘I sent the man with the application and wedding card to the General Assistant (GA) to the Deputy Commissioner of Ludhiana for further action.’’ Jaswant Singh, the GA, promptly sent the application to the miscellaneous branch and to Sahnewal airport. And until yesterday, Harmel was not sure if his uncle’s ‘‘dream’’ would be fulfiled.‘‘I would be the luckiest groom if I can land in a chopper at the bride’s place,’’ he says. ‘‘We were first asked to seek permission from the Director-General, Civil Aviation, Delhi.’’And what if the permission hadn’t come through? ‘‘If by chance we were not permitted a chopper, then we would have arranged for a Limousine, a huge American car with six doors, for the wedding day,’’ says Harmel.
