Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union Minister Uma Bharti vandalised a liquor shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal on Sunday and "warned" the administration to close such shops within a week.
She has been demanding prohibition in the state and had announced that she would launch a protest outside liquor shops.
The former MP chief minister posted a video on Twitter in which she was seen throwing a stone to vandalise a liquor shop. Posting the video, Bharti wrote, “There is a chain of liquor shops in the labour colony of Azad Nagar area of Barkhera Pathani of Bhopal”, she said in her tweets.
1) बरखेड़ा पठानी आझाद नगर, बीएचईएल भोपाल , यहाँ मज़दूरों की बस्ती में शराब की दुकानों की शृंखला हैं जो की एक बड़े आहाता में लोगों को शराब परोसते हैं । pic.twitter.com/dNAXrh1jRY
— Uma Bharti (@umasribharti) March 13, 2022
“The entire earning of the workers goes to buy liquors in these shops. The residents and women here raised objections, staged protests because these shops are against the government policy,” the 62-year-old senior party leader added in a series of tweets.
Last year, she had declared that she would have liquor banned in the state by January 15 or "hit the streets with a stick". However, far from such a move, the Madhya Pradesh government announced a new excise policy just two days after her deadline, making alcohol cheaper. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh's government reduced the excise duty on foreign liquor by 10-13 per cent.
Shops have also been allowed to sell foreign and country liquor together.
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