Why only Chandrapur has liquor ban and not entire Maharashtra? asks Cong MP

Suresh Narayan Dhanorkar, the newly elected member of Lok Sabha from Maharashtra's Chandrapur constituency questioned Saturday why only Chandrapur district has a liquor ban and not the entire state. The Congress leader had defeated Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir from Chandrapur in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.

Speaking to a news channel, Dhanorkar alleged that Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar imposed the liquor ban in Chandrapur to appease people in his Assembly constituency. "The decision to ban liquor was taken by Chandrapur MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar to please some 15,000 voters in his Assembly constituency. A lot of people lost employment. It has not been implemented properly and a huge illegal trade in liquor is in place and the state is losing revenue," he alleged. "You (BJP) are in power in the state and country. Why don't you ban liquor all across Maharashtra," he asked.