With over 40 deaths due to consumption of spurious liquor in Gujarat, the Congress on Friday alleged that illegal liquor business was “fruitful” in the state under the tutelage of the ruling forces and demanded a probe by a sitting High Court judge. Of.
According to Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghvi, 42 people from Botad and neighboring Ahmedabad district have died so far after consuming spurious liquor on July 25, while 97 people are still admitted in hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Expressed concern over the trade of spurious liquor and narcotics in the BJP-ruled state and asked which ruling forces were giving protection to the “mafias” involved.
Congress’s media department head Pawan Khera and Rajya Sabha MP Ami Yagnik made the request to the prime minister while addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here. Narendra Modi During his visit to Gujarat on Friday to speak on the deaths due to spurious liquor and meet the families of the victims.
Khera said that it has been learned that 600 liters of ‘methyl alcohol’ (methanol) was brought from Ahmedabad to Botad district, after which water was mixed with it and it was sold in different areas, due to which people either died or died. Lost or kidney failure. Damage. He said that the government should keep a close watch on the production and sale of such dangerous chemical substance but what happened in this case raises many serious questions.
Kheda said all this is not possible in the ‘dry state’ without the knowledge of the local police and administration. He alleged that the leaders of the ruling party, police and administration and liquor mafia must have been in collusion.
Kheda said that statements have been given in the media on behalf of the families of those who died of spurious liquor that there is no prohibition and liquor is being sold openly. He said, ‘If we talk about the whole of Gujarat, then illicit liquor business of about 15 thousand crore rupees is being done annually. From Modi’s village Vadnagar to every district of the state, illegal liquor business is flourishing. He said the seizure of narcotics worth crores in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, and thus the flourishing of illicit liquor business cannot be a mere coincidence. Khera alleged that this was clearly an experiment being done under the patronage of the ruling forces.
He said that the Congress is demanding that the investigation of the spurious liquor scandal should be done by the sitting judge of the High Court because if the police who are accusing, if they investigate, then that investigation will have no meaning. “Most of the people who died from drinking spurious liquor were poor and bread earners in their respective homes. Such families should be given proper compensation,” Kheda said. He also demanded that free and better treatment should be provided to those who have lost their eyes or have kidney failure.
Yagnik alleged that illegal liquor shops are running all over the state, but no action is being taken. Police investigation revealed that a man named Jayesh alias Raju, who was arrested, stole 600 liters of methyl alcohol from a godown in Ahmedabad, where he worked as a manager, and then passed it on to his Botad’s cousin Sanjay. Sold it for 40 thousand rupees. 25 July.
Knowing that it was an industrial solvent, Sanjay sold the chemical to local bootleggers from various villages in Botad. Police had said that these bootleggers mixed water with the chemical and sold it to people as country liquor.
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