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| 'Roll back new policy, don't push us towards starvation, guns' | | Protests against New Excise Policy continue in Jammu | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: Traders associated with wine business staged a massive protest here on Tuesday against the 'New Excise Policy' and demanded that it should be rolled back.
One of the protesters said, "If the new policy is not rolled back the people associated with this trade will be left with no other option other than picking up a gun. We have been into this business for our entire lives. Once our livelihood is snatched what will we do? We are not big businessmen we are small traders and we are being crippled. We are being pushed towards starvation."
It's in place to mention here that during the past three decades someone from the Jammu has threatened to pick up the gun to fight against what these traders termed as "unjust policy."
The protesters claimed that "Local BJP leaders had met the Lieutenant Governor and had requested him to renew the license of the wine shop owners and roll back the New Excise Policy. But LG turned down their request."
Protesters alleged that the new policy is being implemented to facilitate the entry of contractors from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar into J&K and "now, duplicate wine will be sold in J&K. Till date no one has died in JK after consuming duplicate wine but now it will happen."
"For the past 35-years I have been a salesman in a wine shop. Now our shop is being closed. Many families will come on roads. We have been left with nothing to do," said a protester.
Another protester alleged that the J & K administration has struck a "big deal" with the contractors from outside J&K and they are out to "snatch their bread and butter." |
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