Excelsior Correspondent
BARI BRAHMANA, May 26: Shiv Sena J&K here today staged a protest demonstration demanding ban on liquor in the Union Territory.
Led by Manish Sahni, J&K Shiv Sena president, Shiv Sainiks held placards with anti-liquor slogans written on them.
Sahni told reporters that liquor shops are being opened at most of the places in Jammu region which has not only become a way to destroy generations but is also ruining the economy of the people and hurting religious sentiments of most of the people of J&K.
He further said that while abrogating Article 370 from J&K, the Government had assured to bring developments and address unemployment problem but today on the name of development, liquor shops are being opened at different places.
The Shiv Sena leader said that increasing trend of liquor and drug abuse in J&K is destroying the younger generation.
He claimed that though consumption of alcohol is sin in all religions yet the liquor business in J&K is running so good that now even the national and international liquor mafias are entering the Union Territory and they not even hesitate to sell adulterated liquor through liquor shops for profits.
President Kamghar Wing, Raj Singh; Prabhari, Ashwani Prabhakar; Media Adviser, Deepak Sharma, Shashipal, Sumit Abrol, Sanjeev Sudan, Surjit Kumar, Mangu Ram, Rohit Kumar, Sumit, Rahul, Ram Bhagat, Pawan Singh and others were also present in the protest.
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