By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday alleged that illicit liquor industry was once “flourishing” in Gujarat below the safety of “ruling forces” and demanded a probe through a sitting prime court docket pass judgement on into the demise of over 40 other people because of intake of spurious liquor.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi expressed fear over the trade of spurious liquor and medication within the BJP-ruled state, and requested which ruling forces are giving coverage to the “mafias” concerned.
40-two other people from Botad and neighbouring Ahmedabad district have died to this point after eating the spurious liquor on July 25, whilst 97 individuals are nonetheless admitted to hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad, in line with Gujarat Minister of State for House Harsh Sanghavi.
Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally attacked the BJP over the deaths because of intake of spurious liquor and requested who’s accountable for it.
“By way of placing the label of prohibition at the most sensible, who’re the folks of the federal government giving coverage to the illicit liquor trade,” she requested.
“Bapu’s land needs solutions to those questions. The BJP executive is working clear of the questions of offering coverage to illicit liquor trade,” Priyanka Gandhi mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here, Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera and Rajya Sabha member Amee Yajnik recommended Top Minister Narendra Modi to talk up at the deaths because of spurious liquor and meet households of the sufferers right through his Gujarat discuss with Friday.
Khera mentioned it has come to gentle that 600 litres of ‘methyl alcohol’ (methanol) was once introduced from Ahmedabad to Botad district and then water was once jumbled together it and it was once offered in numerous spaces because of which individuals both misplaced their lives or suffered kidney injury.
The manufacturing and sale of any such unhealthy chemical substance must be carefully monitored through the federal government however what took place on this case raises many critical questions, he mentioned.
All this isn’t conceivable in a “dry state” with out the data of the native police and management, Khera mentioned.
The leaders of the ruling birthday celebration, the police and management and the liquor mafia will have to were complicit, he alleged.
गुजरात में जहरीली शराब के चलते 45 से अधिक लोगों की मृत्यु का जिम्मेदार कौन है? ऊपर से शराबबंदी का लेबल लगाकर, शराब के अवैध कारोबार को संरक्षण सरकार के कौन लोग दे रहे हैं?
बापू की धरती इन सवालों के जवाब चाहती है। भाजपा सरकार अवैध शराब के कारोबार को सरंक्षण के सवाल से भाग रही है।
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 29, 2022
Khera mentioned there were statements within the media through the households of those that have died because of spurious liquor that there is not any prohibition and liquor is being offered overtly.
“If we speak about the entire of Gujarat, then an annual unlawful liquor trade of about Rs 15,000 crore is being carried out. Unlawful liquor trade is thriving from Modi ji’s village of Vadnagar to each district within the state,” Khera alleged.
He mentioned the seizure of substances price crores and the “flourishing” of unlawful liquor trade like this in Gujarat, the house state of Top Minister Modi and House Minister Amit Shah, can’t be a trifling twist of fate.
That is obviously an experiment being performed below the safety of ruling forces, Khera alleged.
He mentioned the Congress calls for that the spurious liquor scandal be investigated through a sitting pass judgement on of the prime court docket as a result of if the police, which is being accused, will examine, then there might be no level in that probe.
“The general public who died because of consuming spurious liquor have been deficient and have been bread earners in their respective families. Suitable repayment must be given to such households,” Khera mentioned.
He additionally demanded that there must be loose and higher remedy made to be had to those that have misplaced their eyes or suffered kidney injury.
Yajnik alleged that unlawful liquor joints are working all the way through the state with out a motion being taken.
Police investigation has published that an individual named Jayesh aka Raju, who has been arrested, had stolen 600 litres of methyl alcohol from a godown in Ahmedabad the place he labored as a supervisor after which offered it to his Botad-based cousin Sanjay for Rs 40,000 on July 25.
In spite of figuring out that it was once an commercial solvent, Sanjay offered the chemical to native bootleggers of various villages of Botad.
Those bootleggers blended water within the chemical and offered it to other people as country-made liquor, police had mentioned.
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday alleged that illicit liquor industry was once “flourishing” in Gujarat below the safety of “ruling forces” and demanded a probe through a sitting prime court docket pass judgement on into the demise of over 40 other people because of intake of spurious liquor.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi expressed fear over the trade of spurious liquor and medication within the BJP-ruled state, and requested which ruling forces are giving coverage to the “mafias” concerned.
40-two other people from Botad and neighbouring Ahmedabad district have died to this point after eating the spurious liquor on July 25, whilst 97 individuals are nonetheless admitted to hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad, in line with Gujarat Minister of State for House Harsh Sanghavi.
Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally attacked the BJP over the deaths because of intake of spurious liquor and requested who’s accountable for it.
“By way of placing the label of prohibition at the most sensible, who’re the folks of the federal government giving coverage to the illicit liquor trade,” she requested.
“Bapu’s land needs solutions to those questions. The BJP executive is working clear of the questions of offering coverage to illicit liquor trade,” Priyanka Gandhi mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here, Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera and Rajya Sabha member Amee Yajnik recommended Top Minister Narendra Modi to talk up at the deaths because of spurious liquor and meet households of the sufferers right through his Gujarat discuss with Friday.
Khera mentioned it has come to gentle that 600 litres of ‘methyl alcohol’ (methanol) was once introduced from Ahmedabad to Botad district and then water was once jumbled together it and it was once offered in numerous spaces because of which individuals both misplaced their lives or suffered kidney injury.
The manufacturing and sale of any such unhealthy chemical substance must be carefully monitored through the federal government however what took place on this case raises many critical questions, he mentioned.
All this isn’t conceivable in a “dry state” with out the data of the native police and management, Khera mentioned.
The leaders of the ruling birthday celebration, the police and management and the liquor mafia will have to were complicit, he alleged.
गुजरात में जहरीली शराब के चलते 45 से अधिक लोगों की मृत्यु का जिम्मेदार कौन है? ऊपर से शराबबंदी का लेबल लगाकर, शराब के अवैध कारोबार को संरक्षण सरकार के कौन लोग दे रहे हैं?
बापू की धरती इन सवालों के जवाब चाहती है। भाजपा सरकार अवैध शराब के कारोबार को सरंक्षण के सवाल से भाग रही है।
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 29, 2022
Khera mentioned there were statements within the media through the households of those that have died because of spurious liquor that there is not any prohibition and liquor is being offered overtly.
“If we speak about the entire of Gujarat, then an annual unlawful liquor trade of about Rs 15,000 crore is being carried out. Unlawful liquor trade is thriving from Modi ji’s village of Vadnagar to each district within the state,” Khera alleged.
He mentioned the seizure of substances price crores and the “flourishing” of unlawful liquor trade like this in Gujarat, the house state of Top Minister Modi and House Minister Amit Shah, can’t be a trifling twist of fate.
That is obviously an experiment being performed below the safety of ruling forces, Khera alleged.
He mentioned the Congress calls for that the spurious liquor scandal be investigated through a sitting pass judgement on of the prime court docket as a result of if the police, which is being accused, will examine, then there might be no level in that probe.
“The general public who died because of consuming spurious liquor have been deficient and have been bread earners in their respective families. Suitable repayment must be given to such households,” Khera mentioned.
He additionally demanded that there must be loose and higher remedy made to be had to those that have misplaced their eyes or suffered kidney injury.
Yajnik alleged that unlawful liquor joints are working all the way through the state with out a motion being taken.
Police investigation has published that an individual named Jayesh aka Raju, who has been arrested, had stolen 600 litres of methyl alcohol from a godown in Ahmedabad the place he labored as a supervisor after which offered it to his Botad-based cousin Sanjay for Rs 40,000 on July 25.
In spite of figuring out that it was once an commercial solvent, Sanjay offered the chemical to native bootleggers of various villages of Botad.
Those bootleggers blended water within the chemical and offered it to other people as country-made liquor, police had mentioned.