<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> After Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra announced the opening up of more liquor shops in the state, senior BJP leader Uma Bharti asked party president J.P. Nadda to impose a ban on liquor in the saffron states. <strong>ALSO READ | <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/39TwcyV Reject Govt's Proposal To Temporarily Pause Farm Laws For 1.5 Yrs; Reiterate Demand Of Full Repeal</a></span><br /></strong></p> <p>Uma Bharti took to Twitter to welcomed the delay by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in granting permission to these new shops. In a series of Hindi tweets, she then went on to elaborate the anti-alcohol stance, finally requesting BJP President JP Nadda to ban liquor sales in states ruled by the party.</p> <p>&ldquo;Government has not yet decided about increasing the number of liquor shops in Madhya Pradesh. This statement of Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a welcome step,&rdquo; she began writing.</p> <p>She then went on to emphasise the benefits of prohibition.</p> <p>&ldquo;At the time of the lockdown due to coronavirus, there was almost a complete state of prohibition, it is clear from the fact that people died from other causes and corona but no one died due to drinking alcohol,&rdquo; she argued.</p> <p>The senior BJP leader wrote about the deaths in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh caused by the consumption of spurious liquor.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ |<a href="https://ift.tt/394FtoL style="color: #e03e2d;">Republic Day Traffic Restrictions In Delhi: Check Road Diversions Across NCR From Jan 22 Till 26</span></a></strong></p> <p>&ldquo;Recently in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, a large number of people died due to drinking alcohol. Most of the road accidents are caused by the driver&rsquo;s drinking. It is surprising that liquor is the messenger of death, yet greed and pressure from the liquor mafia do not allow for prohibition.&rdquo;</p> <p>&ldquo;The victory of BJP in Bihar proves that due to prohibition, women gave unilateral votes to Nitish Kumar,&rdquo; she added.</p> <p>Stating that the loss of revenue from liquor ban can be met in other ways, she linked liquor consumption to alcohol intoxication, murders, accidents, and rape.</p> <p>&ldquo;I am making a public appeal to our party president JP Nadda through this tweet that we should prepare for a complete prohibition in states wherever we have a BJP government,&rdquo; she wrote in Hindi.</p> <p>Congress in Madhya Pradesh has been targeting the BJP as Former chief minister Kamal Nath alleged that the BJP government was converting the state into a "land of liquor".</p>

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