He said the Chief Minister must take suggestions from parties that were for prohibition and ban the trade.
The Supreme Court on December 15 took serious exception to the high number of fatalities (approximately 1.5 lakh annually in road accidents) on the highways across the country and banned States and UTs from renewing licences to highway liquor outlets after March 31, 2017.
HYDERABAD: Congress leader MP V. Hanumantha Rao said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao should follow his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar and prohibit liquor trade, in order to save precious lives.
He told newspersons that prohibition impo-sed by the NTR government had failed due to lack of commitment.
He said the Chief Minister must take suggestions from parties that were for prohibition and ban the trade.
He said there was no point in having more liquor shops to earn revenue, and spending the money on unproductive schemes. He said the Congress would support any move towards abolishing liquor trade.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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