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The BJP leader had thrown cow dung at the same liquor shop in June last year. In March 2022, he had pelted stones at a liquor shop in Bhopal (File photo: PTI)
The former chief minister, who is spearheading the campaign against liquor consumption in the BJP-ruled state, did so on Thursday and said the government should not capitalize on the habit of drinking.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti tied stray cows in front of a liquor shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Orchha city and fed them straw and called upon people to drink cow’s milk and stay away from alcohol.
The former chief minister, who is spearheading the campaign against liquor consumption in the BJP-ruled state, did so on Thursday and said the government should not capitalize on the habit of drinking.
Standing in front of a shop selling Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) in Orchha town of Niwari district, famous for its temples and palaces, after tying up cows, Bharti was heard chanting “don’t drink, drink milk”. No alcohol)”.
The BJP leader had thrown cow dung at the same liquor shop in June last year. In March 2022, he threw a stone at a liquor shop in Bhopal.
A salesman at the outlet immediately downed its shutters fearing a repeat of the 2022 incident.
The Hindutva leader said she, too, was to some extent responsible for the current liquor problem and recalled that she had sought votes for the BJP in the 2003 assembly elections and since then the party had been in power in Madhya Pradesh except for 15 months in 2018. is in -2020 when Congress ruled the state.
Leaders of the saffron party, who had earlier pushed for complete prohibition in the state, have been demanding for the past few months regularization of sale of liquor in Madhya Pradesh, where assembly elections are due by the end of the year.
“Last time, the former Union minister threw cow dung at this Orchha liquor shop. That’s why this time I pulled down the shutter of the shop.
According to the salesman, while addressing the people gathered near the IMFL shop, Bharti said that the government should not capitalize on the habit of drinking alcohol.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a “courageous” leader who has acknowledged that the current excise policy has some flaws and promised to draft a new one in consultation with yoga guru Ramdev, he told the small gathering, according to Rampal.
In the state capital, Chouhan parried questions from reporters on Bharti’s statements and her anti-liquor campaign.
It is expected that Madhya Pradesh government will soon bring a new excise policy. Speaking at the Republic Day celebrations, Chouhan had said that the new excise policy would discourage drinking.
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