In a series of tweets, Uma Bharti said that the “administration assured to stop the liquor sales, but it has been many years, it could not happen. Today I have warned the administration to close the shops within a week.” (Screenshot: Twitter/@umasribharti)Bhopal: 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. 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 labor colony of Azad Nagar area of Barkhera Pathani of Bhopal.”
1) बरखेड़ा पठानी आझाद नगर, बीएचईएल भोपाल , यहाँ मज़दूरों की बस्ती में शराब की दुकानों की शृंखला हैं जो की एक बड़े आ… t.co/tR277dS66z— ANI (@ANI) Mar 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 said in a series of tweets. The political leader further said that the “administration assured to stop the liquor sales, but it has been many years, it could not happen. Today I have warned the administration to close the shops within a week.” This is not the first time that Bharti has sought total prohibition on liquor sales in the party-ruled Madhya Pradesh. Earlier in January, she posted a series of tweets in which she said in the first phase of her move for total prohibition, she had discussions with senior RSS workers, Madhya Pradesh BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “Will start the next phase from February 14, liquor ban and total prohibition in Madhya Pradesh will certainly take place,” she had said. Last year in September, she had announced that she would hit the streets if the BJP government did not ban liquor by January 15 next year. A few months later, the state government unveiled a new excise policy under which it had permitted the setting up of home bars and slashed retail prices of liquor by 20 percent.