VIJAYAWADA: Jana Chaitanya Vedika has asked the public to defeat the ruling Telugu Desam for getting the public addicted to liquor in the past five years. JCV State president Mr V. Lakshmana Reddy said that TD had promised to restrain liquor sales to save the public from liquor addiction but sadly liquor sales had incre-ased greatly as it was a strong source of revenue generation. Mr Reddy said that as YSR Congress was aiming to implement phase wise liquor ban, the JCV was supporting YSRC in the elections.
He stated that JCV had asked all political parties to announce their party policy on liquor and had appealed to all political parties to ban liquor in the State.
Mr Lakshmana Reddy said that in 1990, JCV had started various awareness programmes and inspired by the same, women had started an anti-liquor movement.
He mentioned that responding to the movement, the then AP chief minister N.T. Rama Rao put a liquor ban in AP State but later Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu lifted the liquor ban.
