TDP to launch agitation against indiscriminate sale of liquor

Vijayawada,Jun 15: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will launch a state-wide agitation to protest against the indiscriminate sale of liquor and setting up of belt liquor shops across the state, Senior TDP leader and MLA Devineni Umamaheswara Rao announced here today.Addressing a press conference here, he alleged that the Andhra Pradesh Government had given green signal for the sale of liquor and setting up of belt liquor shops.He alleged that the government had ignored all norms in issuing licences to the liquor shops in the state.Mr Rao said the TDP would launch a state wide-agitation by staging 'dharnas' in front of all the Collector Offices in the state, demanding the government to take steps to regularise the sale of liquor and do away with belt liquor shops.The liquor traders were selling liquor at an exorbitant prices, he claimed and demanded the government to ensure that liquor was sold at Maximum Retail Price (MRP).
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