It is absolutely true that the UDF government of Kerala had surrendered to "liquor lobby" and charges made by KPCC President in this direction is correct. What CM and his coterie saying about ‘practical changes’ in the liquor policy is incomprehensible. The story, of plight of bar workers who lost jobs due to closure of bars and adverse impact on tourism sector, is fabricated and is intended to hide the bribe they collected from abkari contractors. The ministers and MLAs keeping deep concern over bar workers are out rightly ignoring the innumerable families lost in despair due to liquor hazards. Permitting bars to function on all days and saying the government would succeed in creating awareness among people on the policy is ridiculous.
It is to be stated that the credit the nine percent fall in recent liquor consumption in Kerala goes to V M Sudheeran alone. The government sponsored practicability is undoubtedly a virtual sabotage of the policy of gradual reduction of liquor sale.
K A Solaman
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