The 21st century joke.

It is a money making business for all Kerala ministers to open more bars and pubs.The Kerala government's earlier decision to relax the minimum distance limit of bars from schools and places of worship, to revive tourism sector, was a sheer non-sense. Couldn't we survive without tourism, is a significant question.

It is a crafty  plan to shift gods' own country to boozers' on country. All efforts made by anti-liquor agitators were thrown ashtray by the  LDF government. They have backtracked from the decisions they took before the election. Only the women community in the state could prevent the present decision of the government because they are worst sufferers from drunken relatives. It is the youngsters of poor families who are spoiled by the abundent sale of liquor. The LDF government has least concern about the poor lot.

Now, the abkari minister revealing that a decision has been taken for opening of pubs in the state, is yet another wrong step taken by the government.. As State Excise Minister T.P. Ramakrishnan is a close aide of Chief Minister, his involvement in the present dubious deal cannot be ruled out.  Minister Ramakrishnan's revelation that our economy is dependent heavily on tourism and hence more bars and pubs are needed, is a farce.

By opening more liquor outlets in the state the LDF ministers assurance that their policy would be, not prohibition but abstinence from liquor, is the 21st century joke.

K A Solaman