"Liquor ban a super flop": Tejashwi Yadav takes dig at Bihar governement after Hooch deaths
On the hooch tragedy in Bihar, former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday attacked Nitish Kumar and wrote in a post that the liquor ban was a small example of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's institutional corruption.
ANI
Oct 18, 2024 12:42 IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): After 33 people were killed in two incidents of consumption of spurious liquor, former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday attacked Nitish Kumar and wrote in a post that the liquor ban was a small example of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's institutional corruption.
Taking to X, Yadav in his post wrote that the ideological and political ambiguity of the CM resulted in a big flop of the liquor ban in the state.
"Liquor ban is a small example of Nitish Kumar's institutional corruption. If a liquor ban has been implemented then it is the government's responsibility to implement it completely but due to the ideological and policy ambiguity of the Chief Minister, weak will and dependence on selected officials instead of public representatives, the liquor ban is a super flop in Bihar today. Due to the unholy nexus of ruling politicians-police and liquor mafia, a black market of illegal liquor worth more than 30 thousand crores has flourished in Bihar.
"If despite prohibition, three crores 46 lakh litres of liquor is shown to have been recovered on paper in Bihar (according to an honest senior police officer, there is fraud in this as well, because for smuggling of illicit liquor, the police officers pretend to seize/get liquor seized, like 20 when a truck smuggles liquor into Bihar, a broken-down truck is seized, which also contains some other substance instead of liquor)," he wrote.
Tejashwi Yadav also posed a set of questions for the Chief Minister asking if such a huge amount of alcohol is being recovered every year, then who was responsible for it?
The former Deputy CM also said that the CM must explain why most of the arrested people are from the poor and deprived sections of society.
Meanwhile, the total count in the state has now risen to 33 with 28 dead in Siwan and 5 dead in Saran. So far, a total of 79 people have been admitted to the Siwan Sadar Hospital, Basantpur Primary Health Center. 13 severely sick people have been admitted to PMCH Patna for treatment. (ANI)
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