Is liquor going to ban in Madhya Pradesh like Bihar and Gujarat?
Is liquor going to ban in Madhya Pradesh like Bihar and Gujarat?
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A team of expert is sent from Madhya Pradesh to Gujrat and Bihar to study liquor prohibition model.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has remained non-committal on the issue of banning liquor in the state.

Not only to understand how prohibition has been implemented in the two states but also how government are dealing with resulting revenue losses.In last assembly elections, he only called for the total prohibition in the state saying ," Liquor was not only destroying individuals and families but society at large.”

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Madhya Pradesh will be going to the polls in later part of 2018 and Chouhan has once again gone in campaign mode. He has just started a several phased Namami Devi Narmata Yatra which will conclude in May.

In the first phase, Chouhan has announced a no-liquor zone on both sides of the  river that originates from the state. No liquor shops will be allowed to operate from within 500 meters of the river.

Some 58 such liquor shops that were operating from within 500 meters of the Narmada river bank have been closed with immediate effect. And according to a top government source liquor shops on highways would be closed in the next phase.

But the larger question is will Shivraj impose total prohibition as he had promised during the run up to the last elections or is he just trying to wriggle out of a situation that he himself had created by promising to ban? 

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