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Wednesday, Feb 09, 2005

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Andhra Pradesh

Anti-people, says CPI(M)

By Our Staff Reporter

WARANGAL, FEB. 8. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) State unit secretary, B. V. Raghavulu, on Tuesday asked the Government to withdraw its orders envisaging permitting close to 700 new liquor shops or face an agitation.

Mr. Raghavulu said the new liquor policy, aimed at increasing revenue, would result in law and order problems and more road accidents.

The worst hit would be the middle class and the poor, he added.

Addressing a press conference, the CPI(M) leader reminded the Congress that it had promised before the Assembly elections that it would keep a check on belt shops and liquor shops if it came to power.

"It amounts to deceiving women who were promised a better government. In the name of controlling adulterated toddy, the Government has shattered the traditional vocation and is now allowing liquor shops to come up in all villages,'' he pointed out.

Threat to coops

Mr. Raghavulu said the Government was also contemplating winding up all 2,654 cooperative societies rendering some 8,000 employees jobless and compounding the problems of the farming community.

The CPI(M) would consult other peoples' organisations and launch a series of agitations outside the Assembly while its MLAs would question the Government inside the House.

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