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Madya Nisheda Andolana Karnataka, a State-wide organisation warring for implicit prohibition of liquor, has expressed superior interest implicit the unabated amerciable liquor income by unlicensed shops and stated that the organisation volition intensify its protestation astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru connected November 25.
Addressing a property league successful Yadgir, Vidya Patil, State convenor of the organisation, alleged that contempt continuous protests, amerciable liquor income person not been prevented and person continued unabatedly owed to the inactivity of the constabulary and excise departments.
“The liquor income from the licensed shops and besides from unlicensed shops similar market shops, cookware shops, and houses person been higher, arsenic youths are becoming addicted successful the agrarian areas aft liquor was easy accessible,” she said.
She stated that Maharashtra, Gujarat, and galore different States person granted gram panchayats sizeable powerfulness nether the Panchayat Raj Act to clasp a Gram Sabha (village meeting), wherever the authorities is required to get mandatory support from astatine slightest 20% of the women participating successful specified gram sabhas. The State authorities should bring akin laws present to curb amerciable liquor sales, she said.
Ms. Patil said that the State authorities should signifier women’s consciousness committees successful each colony and springiness them quasi-judicial powerfulness to curb amerciable liquor selling.
To spot specified demands earlier the State government, the organisation is holding a protestation astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru with “Sarayi Beda, Shikshana Beku; Beeru Beda, Neeru Beku (Want acquisition and h2o alternatively of liquor)”, and the wide public, particularly women, should instrumentality portion successful the protestation to guarantee the enactment to curb amerciable liquor selling, Ms. Patil added.
Nagarathna Patil, Mallikarjun Satyampet, Sharanagouda Kolhar, Sushilamma, Mallikarjun, Bannappa and others were present.
