While upholding the right of an elected government to review policy decisions taken by the previous government, the Madras High Court on Saturday lamented that successive governments in the State had taken a consistent policy on sale of liquor alone, though it is “detrimental to the welfare of people and interest of the society at large.”
Dismissing a case against government’s latest decision on establishing a cooperative training institute, Justice R. Suresh Kumar wrote: “In certain areas alone, all successive governments, for several decades in this State, have consistently taken same policy decision which support the earlier government’s decision irrespective of the political dispensation.
“Some of such kind of decisions taken, though are detrimental to the welfare of the people and interest of the society at large in the State, the successive governments have not given up such policy because they have an eye on the revenue for the State exchequer.”
