Inspired by their Bihar counterparts’ local mukhiya Sobha Devi and her women supporters in Saddam in Gomia have swung into action to ensure total prohibition in the State. They are also demanding similar laws to stop use of alcohol in any from in the State.
According to reports a team of Sobha Devi a mukhiya of pachhai Saddam on Friday busted one and half dozen illegal wine distilleries and seized 300 local made liquor in a series of raids conducted at Kewat tola under the Gomia police station .The local mukhiya Sobha Devi along with others women namely lata Devi ,Sanju Devi ,Manju Devi ,Putul Devi ,Sabita Devi ,Panwa Devi ,Radha Devi, Asha Devi and 100 other women of the locality reached the local wine bhati at Kewat tola here on Friday and vandalized all wine bhati .They also destroyed the wine bottles stored for sell and seized huge quantity of Ganja from a stall.
As per the decision taken by the women group in presence of several intellectuals .At part from shouting against the boozers ,the local school kids in the rural pockets have also appealed their drunken father ,other family members and neighbours to support their movement . “We want We want the chief minister to come forward and make similar laws to prohibit the use of alcohol. Frequent sale and purchase of wine and brewing of country made liquors have really ruined the lives of thousands of people with the rural women and children being the worst affected,” said Sobha Devi a local Mukhiya of Pachhami Saddam.