Congress legislator Sanjay Yadav on Saturday said he is keen to join senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bh💮arti’s campaign against alcohol consumption in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and will invite her to villages where t🔯he sale of illicit liquor is going on.
“I am go🐷ing to ring Bharti today and fix up a meeting with her in Bhopal. I am eager to join hands with her to put an end to the drinking menace which is ruining families in Madhya Pradesh,” Yadav, who represents the Bargi assembly constituency, told PTI over the phon▨e from Jabalpur.
“If Bhartiji really wants to work for discouraging drinking with government support, she first has to stop the sale of liquor unlawfully sold in villages under the regime's protection,” he said. Bharti, a former chief minister, has been demanding regulation of alcohol across the🌞 state ahead of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government’s announcement of a new liquor policy. Yadav said he will invite Bharti to the villages where he said liquor is being sold unlawfully.
“If she is not trying to revive her political career, she should come alo🍨ng with me and see how families are being ruined due to drinking,” the lawmaker said. Assembly polls are due in MP by the end of the year. Two days ago, Bharti had tied cows in front of a liquor shop at Orchha in Niwari district as part of her campaign against alcohol and fed them hay as she called upon people to drink milk and shun liquor.
She has said that the government should not “cash in” on some people’s habit of drinking. Spea💜king at a Republic Day functiꦗon, MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said that the state would come up with a new policy that would discourage drinking. On Friday, state Home minister Narottam Mishra had called Bharti’s move to tie cows in front of a liquor shop as part of her campaign a “good thing”.
Former Union minister Bharti had thrown cow dung at the same Orchha liquor shop last June and had hurled a stone into a liquo♈r vend in Bhopal in March last yea𒉰r. While Bharti had started off by seeking total prohibition in the state, she is now demanding regulation of alcohol sales.
