New Delhi: The Congress may have been blaming the BJP government in Karnataka of inaction on the Mangalore pub attack case, but now, a Congress chief minister himself has made a statement that smacks of the same biases that provoked the pub attacks by Sri Ram Sene activists.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said, “We don't want to promote the liquor culture and decisions we take will be to see that the culture of boys and girls going hand-in-hand to pubs and malls for drinking is stopped.”
The Rajasthan government also decided to hike the license fee of bars and raise VAT to 20 per cent on country-made-foreign liquor and beer.
The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Gehlot.
"We don't want to promote the liquor culture and decisions we take will be to see that the culture of boys and girls going hand in hand to pubs and malls for drinking is stopped,” says Gehlot.
The Cabinet also approved the proposal of spending 1 per cent of the excise revenue on poor people's free medical care and rehabilitation of makers of country made liquor, officials said.
However, the new rate of the license fee is yet to be decided.
The Cabinet said that January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, would be included in the list of dry days in the state.
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