New Delhi: After Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra announced the opening up of more liquor shops in the state, senior BJP leader Uma Bharti asked party president J.P. Nadda to impose a ban on liquor in the saffron states. ALSO READ | Farmers Reject Govt’s Proposal To Temporarily Pause Farm Laws For 1.5 Yrs; Reiterate Demand Of Full Repeal
Uma Bharti took to Twitter to welcomed the delay by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in granting permission to these new shops. In a series of Hindi tweets, she then went on to elaborate the anti-alcohol stance, finally requesting BJP President JP Nadda to ban liquor sales in states ruled by the party.
“Government has not yet decided about increasing the number of liquor shops in Madhya Pradesh. This statement of Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a welcome step,” she began writing.
She then went on to emphasise the benefits of prohibition.
“At the time of the lockdown due to coronavirus, there was almost a complete state of prohibition, it is clear from the fact that people died from other causes and corona but no one died due to drinking alcohol,” she argued.
The senior BJP leader wrote about the deaths in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh caused by the consumption of spurious liquor.
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“Recently in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, a large number of people died due to drinking alcohol. Most of the road accidents are caused by the driver’s drinking. It is surprising that liquor is the messenger of death, yet greed and pressure from the liquor mafia do not allow for prohibition.”
“The victory of BJP in Bihar proves that due to prohibition, women gave unilateral votes to Nitish Kumar,” she added.
Stating that the loss of revenue from liquor ban can be met in other ways, she linked liquor consumption to alcohol intoxication, murders, accidents, and rape.
“I am making a public appeal to our party president JP Nadda through this tweet that we should prepare for a complete prohibition in states wherever we have a BJP government,” she wrote in Hindi.
Congress in Madhya Pradesh has been targeting the BJP as Former chief minister Kamal Nath alleged that the BJP government was converting the state into a “land of liquor”.
