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Monday, August 10, 2015 07:53 PM IST
August 10:
Chennai, August 10: DMK treasurer M K Stalin on August 10 said that the DMK would implement total prohibition in Tamil Nadu if it came to power after the 2016 Assembly elections.
DMK has always kept its promises to the people in the state, including free electricity and rice for Re 1 per kilogram. Similarly, the party will implement prohibition, as promised by party chief M Karunanidhi, Stalin said while launching an anti-liquor protest at Sholinganallur in Chennai. The party organised similar demonstrations in all district headquarters of the State on August 10.
After the AIADMK government took office in 2011, Tasmac shops had been opened in each and every street corner, he said adding that the DMK government had reintroduced prohibition while the AIADMK government reintroduced liquor in the state.
The DMK government had reduced the timings of arrack shops and the number of shops and bars, he said.
Paying homage to Gandhian Sasi Perumal who died during an anti-liquor protest in Marthandam on July 31, Stalin said, officials and ruling party politicians were
responsible for the death of Sasi Perumal. He did not die but was killed. Chief minister J Jayalalithaa has not condoled the death of the Gandhian who fought for a
public cause.
DMK staged similar anti-liquor programmes across the state on Monday. Hundreds of party cadres, especially women, attended.
More than thousand party cadres staged a protest in front of the south taluk office In Coimbatore, raising slogans against the AIADMK government. Addressing the
gathering, former minister Pongalur N Palanisamy said the party would come to power in 2016 and implement prohibition.
Nearly thousand people participated in demonstration at Anna Nagar in Madurai, led by North district secretary V Velusamy and South district secretary K Thalapathy.
A similar demonstration was staged at Thirumangalam by rural district functionaries of the party.
