Going with anti-romeo drive and action against illegal slaughter houses in the State, Yogi Adityanath government’s is now under pressure after women in the state took the battle in their own hands to get the liquor shop closed forcibly. Just in last 48-hours, over a dozen incidents were reported in the State including in the state capital where the agitated women attacked liquor shops and even torching some of them to register their protest. The agitators were demanding closure of liquor shops.
Interestingly, the minister for women welfare, Dr Rita Bahuguna Joshi, came forward on Wednesday morning, assuring that policy will be made to check the menace as well as to implement the Supreme court orders regarding shifting of liquor shops at least 500 meters away from State and national highways. She assured that the government will look into the matter and it would be seen that no liquor shops were open in the restricted areas (at least 500 meters away from schools, temples and other educational and religious institutions), but the women in the state were still up on their arms against these liquor shops.
In lucknow, hundred of women torched a country made liquor shop in Banthara area on the lucknow -Kanpur highway on Tuesday morning. On Monday evening, they torched another liquor shop in Gwari area of Vibhuti Khand in Gomatinagar and in Sabzi Mandi at Gosainganj besides ransacking shops on Faizabad road, Madiyaon and in Rajajipuram.
In Ambedkarnagar, four women were arrested along with six others when they ransacked a liquor shop in Mirzapur village in Akbarpur area while in Meerut a country made liquor shop was ransacked at Noorpur village under lisarigate police station area and the salesman was brutally assaulted before the cops rushed to his rescue. In Premnagar area of Bareilly, agitated woman ransacked two liquor shops. likely wise in Ramnagar Puliya area in Agra, angry women torched a liquor shop in protest.
On Tuesday, hundred of women of Kachchie Basti on Idgah Road at Bajraiya, came out on road and ransacked two shops demanding their immediate closure. In Balia also, the woman torched liquor shop in protest. In Badaut area of Bagpat and in Chamrauta Bazar in Varanasi, agitated crowd ransacked liquor shops demanding their closure on Monday evening. Similar attack on the liquor shops were received from lakinpur Kheri, Saharanpur, Bulundshahr, Mathura, Jhansi, Aligarh etc in several other places in the state.