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Sudheeran flays policy

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AGITATION: Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran inaugurating a satyagraha organised by the Kerala Madya Nirodhana Samithi against the liquor policy in front of the Secretariat on Saturday. — Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leader V.M. Sudheeeran has charged the Governments with converting Kerala from God's to the devil's land through liquor sales. Inaugurating a satyagraha organised against the liquor policy by the Kerala Madya Nirodhana Samithi before the Secretariat on Saturday, he warned that the exclusion of the spirit mafia from the Gooda Act and the taking away of the police's power to conduct abkari raids would convert the place into a hell.

Archbishop Soosaipakiam, who spoke asked the Government not to loot the poor by encouraging drinking among them even if it did not help them.

He said that through the liquor policy, drinking was being encouraged and the people were being looted. He described it as cruel.

He asked the Government to turn back from such a policy. Chairman of the Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi P.Gopinathan Nair warned that the move to withdraw the arrack ban would be opposed at all costs. K.E.Mammen, O.J.Chinamma and Haji Mahin Neroth were among the others who spoke. State president of the Samiti, K.K.Rahulan, presided over the meeting.

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