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6mo ago

Bihar CM Rules Out Liquor Ban Rollback, Vows Tougher Crackdown

The stance tests NDA unity after ally demands for a review.

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Overview

  • Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary, who restated Friday that prohibition stays, cited support from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former CM Nitish Kumar.
  • He said the state will target illegal and spurious liquor linked to recent hooch deaths, with stricter enforcement and gap-fixing in the law’s rollout.
  • RLM MLA Madhav Anand and JD(U) MLA Anant Singh met the chief minister within days of the new government to press for scrapping the ban.
  • Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said Sunday that poor residents face police cases while liquor mafias sell spurious brews that have killed people.
  • Opposition parties framed the move as political cover, with the RJD citing NDA infighting and Congress alleging the policy benefits liquor mafias.