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Mahila Satta calls for war against liquor

Staff Reporter

Its mega campaign will conclude in Hyderabad on October 2

NALGONDA: Mahila Satta convener D. Lakshmi, has called upon all sections of society to take part in their war against liquor and arrack.

As part of the mega campaign launched by them at Srikakulam on August 15, the activists are visiting villages and interacting with women who have been subjected to torture by addicted men and encouraging them to form village-level committees to fight the menace.

“Belt-shops are omnipresent and they are wreaking havoc with lives of poor and downtrodden people.

The village economy is facing a grave threat due to heavy consumption of liquor by the poor,” she observed while addressing a meeting at Suryapet. She called upon all sections of society to take part in the war against liquor and arrack. Woman activists of Lok Satta, led by Ms. Lakshmi, during the campaign, raised slogans against the liquor policy of the State Government and distributed thought-provoking literature among people.

The mega campaign was launched in Srikakulam on August 15.

The activists have been visiting villages and interacting with women who have been subjected to torture by their men folk in drunken condition.

They encouraged women to form village-level committees to fight the liquor menace. They entered Nalgonda district at Yerraguntapally in Dindi mandal on Wednesday and toured extensively in villages on Thursday.

Effigy burnt

The activists reached Tungaturthy in the night where they burnt an effigy of “Saarasura”. The campaign will conclude in Hyderabad on October 2 to mark Gandhi Jayanti.

“We have formed 12 committees in the district and we are chalking out a plan against belt-shops,” V. Vijayender Reddy, Lok Satta district convener, told The Hindu.

Shops identified

He said that 2,500 belt shops had been identified in the district. Nagamani, Suma, Parvathi, Vanaja, Kanakamma, Sreenivas, A. Pandu Ranga Rao, Medi Narasimha and others took part in the programme.

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