Blaming the ‘J-mafia’ for liquor-related deaths in the State, Telugu Desam Party Polit Bureau member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu has demanded that the government release a White Paper on the sale of liquor, the revenue earned, and the loans borrowed by the Excise Department in the last three years.
In a statement on Saturday, Mr. Ramakrishnudu alleged that illicit liquor and country arrack were flowing in the State. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had introduced his own cheap brands of liquor, which were claiming innocent lives, the TDP leader alleged.
There were several unanswered questions to which the government owed an explanation, he said. “People want to know what the YSRCP government has done in the last three years for implementing the promised total prohibition,” he said.
