Is cheap liquor BJP’s national policy, KTR asks on Veerraju comments

Hyderabad, Dec.29 (Maxim News): Municipal Administration and IT Minister K T Rama Rao today ridiculed the Andhra Pradesh State BJP AP president Somu Veerraju on cheap liquor comments. KTR tweeted Wah what a scheme… What a shame ?! The minister asked the BJP leadership to clarify whether they will take national policy to offer cheap liquor in all the states or those states where they want to come to power. If the BJP seeks to give cheap liquor to come to power, he asked.

On his twitter handle the minister said that the BJP in Andhra Pradesh seems to lure the people with cheap liquor at Rs 50. His remarks came at a time when Verraju said reportedly that they will offer liquor at Rs 50 on coming to power. KT Rama Rao asked whether the BJP national policy was to offer cheap liquor at Rs 50. In the BJP Janagraha meeting held at Vijayawada on Tuesday addressed by former union minister and BJP national leader Prakash Javadekar.

The BJP leader charged that Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was looting the people in the name of liquor sale and prohibition. If we are voted to power the BJP will offer cheap liquor at Rs 70 and if income rises it will be made available at Rs 50. This invited criticism from the Telugu Desam and Minister KT Rama Rao as well.

He accused the YCP Government of cheating people on liquor sales. Veerraju said that the Jagan Government was giving some amount to the poor by looting Rs 12000 per year through liquor sale. If we are voted to power the BJP Government will offer liquor at Rs 70 and reduce it further to Rs 50, Veerraju said. He said that about one crore people taking liquor in AP should vote the BJP to power and get cheap liquor at Rs 70 and income rises it will be offered for Rs 50.

Reacting to this minister sought to know whether cheap liquor sale is the national agenda of the BJP. He said Wah what a scheme? What a shame. AP BJP stoops to a new low, he said. National BJP policy to supply cheap liquor at Rs 50 or this bumper offer is only to states where the desperation is high. KT Rama Rao asked whether the BJP plans to sell cheap liquor at the states where it wants to come to power or across the country. (Maxim News)

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