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April 26, 2024 10:18 AM

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UK government finds liquor sale as the key source to bridge its fiscal deficit. Mobile van liquor sale goes unabated, officially

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The BJP led government of Uttarakhand running in a massive fiscal deficit of staggering 44000 crores has no option but to cover this fiscal loss by various means and sale of liquor on widespread scale seems to be the best possible alternative or option for the saffron party whose ideological plank is mainly spiritualism, hindu religion, propagation of values and principles of the majority community to beget votes in the name of temple construction in Ayodhya etc and appeasing them in every possible way.

In Uttarakhand, considered to be the land of abode of Gods where exist four historical religious sanctuaries for centuries viz Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamnotri , including hundreds of historical temples, the BJP government in order to cover its increasing fiscal deficit has preferred to throw all its religious and spiritual principles to winds against the wishes of the general masses by selling liquor on mass scale in the interior villages , towns and cities through a wide network of mobile vans or mobile truck services as well as in provision stores in residential localities who fulfil the condition of depositing a heavy security and having an annual turnover or sale of Rs. fifty lakhs.

There have been widespread protests in various nooks and corners of Uttarakhand by women and youths who’d been lathicharged and even jailed for not letting the government agencies open liquor shops in various parts of Uttarakhand, particularly in the interior villages. Hundreds of thousands of liquor addicts have already died and their families ruined due to substandard and even IMFL liquor in Uttarakhand. And the household women are the ultimate sufferers confronted with regular econmic problems and physical mental tortures.

But despite all this, the saffron party led government of Trivendra Singh Rawat preferred the widespread liquor sale in the land of abode of Gods than surrendering to the public pressure who’d voted him and his party to an overwhelmning majority with 57 lawmakers out of 70, a record of sorts during the last 18 years after the state came into existence.

While there is tremendous dearth of quality education, health facilities, and job avenues in entire state leading to massive exodus of village population to cities, towns and metropolises and ninety percent of the populace is demanding Gaursain as UK’s permanent capital symbolising the decentralised socio economic development, the BJP government shockingly seems little or neglibly interested in this genuine demand and is instead busy selling liquor all around through mobile vans and other convenient outlets thus literally spoiling the health wealth and career of its inhabitants particularly the women community who are already the most suffering lot in view of their increasing exploitation and no opportunity of socio political, economic and educational empowerment.

The situation has become so tense and awry, in the himalatan state in terms of liquor selling that the government had now provided mobile liquor sellers with armed police force in mobile vans separately, so as to forcibly counter the women and youth opposing the MOBILE THEKEVALLAS and if need be the police can go to any extent.

Just yesterday i.e. on 6th June when the local populace, particularly the women and youth vociferously opposed the opening of the new liquor shop in Dhalawala, Rishikesh not only were the processionists taken to task by the police but the government introduced a mobile liquor sale service alongwith mobile heavy police protection to ensure that there is no hiccup in the sale of liquor through these mobile vans.

Just imagine now liquor would be served door to door through these mobile van services officially, as vegetables and food grains are usually sold during the emergency situations.

Sounds ironical, ridiculous and anguishing as well that instead of opening mobile heath centres or polyclinics in the interior villages n towns for improving peoples’ health in abundance, the excise department and its minister has preferred running mobile liquor vans to play with the already deyeriorating biological, economic and social health of its inhabitants thus ruining their families, socially, culturally and economically. It is a general assesment and estimation that the excise department of Uttarakhand tentatively acknowledges the revenue or profit of 1500 to 2000 crores annually through such liquor sales in Uttarakhand. What’s your take friends?

Sunil Negi hails from Uttarakhand and is a veteran journalist and author. He is a prolific writer and has carved a name for himself in the media world. He received the 'Golden Achiever Award' in the '90th AIAC Excellence Awards 2019' for his book ''Havoc in Heaven'' based on the tragedy that struck Uttarakhand in which thousands of people lost their lives. He is also the President of Uttarakhand Journalists Forum and majorly writes on Politics, Current Affairs, and Social Issues.

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