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Move to open liquor shops condemned

Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind's Kerala chapter has condemned the reported Government move to sanction 300 foreign liquor shops and to permit reopening of 1,500-odd toddy shops that were shut down in 2001.

The State secretariat of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in a statement on Wednesday said the Government's proposals in this regard ran counter to the promise given at the election time by the LDF to organise campaigns against liquor.

It being a fact that drinking habit wrecked families, there was no way the Government would be able to defend its moves. "There would be mass agitations if the Government opened liquor shops."

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