Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 30: Social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday wrote to his former mentee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, regarding the policy on government liquor licences that was abandoned in July due to a corruption investigation. He claimed that after entering politics, Delhi Chief Minister ‘lost his own ideals’ and called him ‘drunk on power.’
“This is the first time I am writing to you since you became chief minister, because I am pained at recent news reports about your government’s liquor policy,” the letter, in Hindi, says at the outset.
“You had written idealistic things on liquor policies in your book ‘Swaraj’, for which you got me to write the introduction,” he said quoting from it that no liquor shops be opened without area residents’ approval.
“You have forgotten those ideals after becoming chief minister,” he further added.
Due to the entry of private businesses into the liquor market as a result of the excise policy, there are now more options available at more affordable costs. The AAP claimed that while raising money, it would eradicate the liquor mafia and the grey market. The strategy, which had been implemented in November of last year, was revoked eight months later as the CBI began investigating corruption charges, though.
