8 months ago
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Hyderabad
Former Minister and BRS MLA T. Harish Rao accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of pursuing a liquor-driven gross argumentation astatine the disbursal of nationalist welfare.
In a statement, Mr. Rao alleged that the government, alternatively of providing alleviation to citizens, was ensuring that much radical had much entree to liquor astatine higher prices. He criticised the hike successful exertion interest for liquor shops from ₹2 lakh to ₹3 lakh, and said that the arbitrary summation successful liquor prices besides showed the government’s intent to treble excise income.
He said the Congress promised to region loop shops but present they person flooded each colony with liquor. He alleged that the CM was pressurising officials to execute liquor income targets.
Mr. Rao besides alleged that the authorities was pushing microbreweries into each town, thereby turning Telangana into a “state of drinkers.” He besides accused the authorities of misleading the Gowda assemblage by announcing 25% preservation successful vino shops, portion failing to instrumentality adjacent the earlier 15% quota introduced nether KCR’s government.
