MSJK demands ban on liquor sale

MSJK activists raising slogans during a protest in Jammu on Friday.
MSJK activists raising slogans during a protest in Jammu on Friday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 13: Mission Statehood Jammu Kashmir (MSJK) activists here today organised a protest rally under the leadership of their president, Sunil Dimple demanding passing of a bill in the ongoing budget session of the Assembly to ban the sale of liquor in J&K.
Addressing the protesters, Dimple said that they will start agitation to get a ban on the sale of liquor in Jammu city as well as at Katra.
He claimed that after the abrogation of Article 370, BJP government made liquor policy and opened more than 300 liquor shops to loot the poor people of Jammu.
The MSJK leader said that for revenue generation our youth should not be made liquor addicts.
He appealed to all the 90 MLAs of J&K to get united to pass a bill in the Assembly to ban the sale of liquor in J&K like Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and in many other States.
Sudesh Kumar, Gurcharn Singh, Mohinder Kumar, Dev Raj, Vipan, Mukesh, Rakesh Sharma, Kala Kumar, Satwant Singh, Ram Kumar Das, Akbar Khan, Shafi Khan, Nazier Ahmad and many others were also present in the protest.