Bhopal. Two weeks after senior BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti pelted stones at a liquor shop in Bhopal’s Barkheda Pathani area, a new liquor shop is set to open in the area. A liquor shop is under construction, where the sale of both local and foreign liquor will start from April 1. Despite this, local people, including women, are protesting against the new liquor shop.
There are already two-three liquor shops at different places in Barkheda Pathani area and the new shop is near residential colony. The new shop will be barely 200 meters away from the existing liquor shop on the road connecting Awadhpuri residential colony and Barkheda Pathani.
Women in adjoining residential colonies protested against the new liquor shop, saying the old residential was away from the colonies, but the new one was barely 200 meters from Avadhuri’s West Block. “We protested, but no one listened to us,” says a group of women in Awadhpuri’s West Block.
Bharti, who has been demanding complete prohibition in party-ruled Madhya Pradesh, recently wrote to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reminding him of his promise to run an awareness campaign against the use of alcohol and drugs.
The former Union minister then warned the local administration to close the liquor shop within a week. On March 13, they pelted stones on liquor bottles in a shop located in Azadpur area of Barkheda Pathani.
—AnyTV News
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