YC for shifting of liquor shops out of city

Raipur, April 01, 2013

The Youth Congress (YC) has asked the district administration to shift liquor shops being operated in city to outskirts. In this connection, the YC members - led by Raipur North MLA Kuldeep Juneja, their national general secretary Vikas Upadhyay and their Raipur North assembly Shiekh Mushir, wore a blindfold and submitted a memorandum to from Collector Siddhartha Komal Pardeshi on Monday.

Pointing that liquor shops in Raipur were located near schools, colleges, temples, hospitals, mosques and densely populated areas, Mushir said the people face inconvenience due to such shops and hence the district administration should quickly shift them out of the city. 

He also objected over licence being obtained by liquor contractors on the name of females. 

“The liquor contractors are misusing names of females by mentioning them as partners in the liquor shops and earning huge bucks. We strongly condemn such contractors and have urged the Collector to take stern action against them,” he said.

He informed that the YC would continue its movement against liquor shops in phased manner. In first phase, it submitted memorandum to Collector. In second phase, it will demonstrate before liquor shops after appealing the liquor contractors in written to shift their shops out of city. In the third phase, it will stage dharna before the liquor shops while in the fourth its members will lock the liquor shops.

NSUI demands blanket ban on liquor sale

The NSUI too submitted memorandum to the Collector during the latter’s jandarshan and demanded blanket ban on liquor sale. In the memorandum, the NSUI pointed that several liquor shops in the city were being operated in violation of excise rules. 

The organisation’s former state president Sanjeev Shukla said the despite chief minister Raman Singh’s promise to people regarding prohibition of liquor sale, the government has not closed any of the liquor shops by far.