From a Correspondent
GOLAGHAT (Dhekial), May 3: Various women’s organizations came out on the road and staged massive protests in Golaghat to demand an alcohol-free Assam on Wednesday.
The activists of women’s body like ri Sangram Samiti, Mahila Saminiti, Hamdoiporia ri Suraksha Samiti, Biranga ri Shakti Dal, Mohila Samiti and Scheduled Caste Students’ Union got together near Deputy Commissioner’s office of Golaghat and staged massive protest against the State Government for demanding ban on alcohol in Assam.
Addressing the gathering, the president Mod Mukta Asom Davi Samittee, Asom, Prabin Das said, “The BJP-led Sarbanda Sonowal government is planning to kill youths by providing availability of liquor in rural areas. Despite development of the people of rural areas, the government has taken decision to issue permission for selling traditiolly-made liquor openly which will harm the poor families,” he added.
Taking part in the protest, the president and secretary of Biranga ri Shakti Dal, Rupa Das and mita Hazarika and Hamdoiporia ri Suraksha Samiti’s president Rinkumoni Rajkhowa said that illegal desi liquor and other illegal alcoholic materials and drugs harm the new generation youths. Various families in village areas have been destroyed due to alcohol abuse. They demanded stopping the illegal business of desi liquor in village areas. The two organizations strongly demanded to make Assam an alcohol-free State.
The president of Golaghat AASCSU, Dhrubajyoti Bharali said that after declaration of ban on all liquor shops within 500 metres of tiol and State highways across the country by the Supreme Court, the liquor shops were being set up in rural areas, which was a very bad sign for society. As a result, increase in alcohol consumption will lead to increase in crimes like rape, theft and robbery.
The organizations slammed the role of some Gaon Panchayat officials for allegedly issuing permission for setting up liquor shops in gaon panchayat areas. The anti-alcohol demand organizations threatened that they would launch massive protest against the Gaon Panchayat officials who were involved in giving permission for liquor shops. In the massive protest Golaghat AJYCP, ATTSA and AASCSU took part.