Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Andhra Pradesh unit president Daggubati Purandeswari met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on October 8 (Sunday) and sought an inquiry into the alleged corruption in liquor sales in the State.
In a memorandum submitted to Mr. Shah, she alleged that the sale of ‘cheap liquor’ was not only resulting in the death of thousands of people but also had opened the floodgates to corruption, wherein huge sums were being siphoned off to ‘fill the pockets’ of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his cronies.
The BJP leader pointed out that the liquor shops, which used to be auctioned earlier, were now being run by the State-run Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Limited (APBCL), which procures liquor from the manufacturers only upon the ‘fulfilment of its terms and conditions’.
