The former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Uma Bharti, shared a video on Twitter in which she was seen throwing a stone at a liquor store.
Digital Desk: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti demolished a liquor store in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and warned the authority to close such stores within a week. The BJP leader shared a video on Twitter in which she was seen throwing a stone at a liquor store in an attempt to vandalize it. “There is a chain of liquor shops in the labor colony of Azad Nagar area of Barkhera Pathani of Bhopal,” Bharti wrote, posting the video. “The entire earning of the workers goes to buy liquors in these shops. The residents and women here raised objections, staged protests because these shops are against the government policy,” Uma Bharti wrote in a series of tweets. “The administration promised to stop liquor sales, but it has been many years, but it could not happen. So today, I issued a warning to the administration to close the stores within a week,” the senior BJP leader said. This is not the first time Bharti has sought a total ban on liquor sales in Madhya Pradesh. Earlier in January, she posted a series of tweets in which she stated that in the first phase of her move for total prohibition, she had discussions with senior RSS workers, Madhya Pradesh BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma, and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “The next phase will begin on February 14, with a liquor ban and total prohibition in Madhya Pradesh,” she had stated. Notably, last year in September, she declared that if the BJP government did not ban liquor by January 15 next year, she would come out to the streets. A few months later, the state government announced a new excise policy that allowed for the establishment of home bars and reduced retail liquor prices by 20%.Continue Reading
