Learn to enjoy your drink on the sly, like 'bada sahibs': Manjhi's advice to poor in dry Bihar
2 years, 5 months ago

Learn to enjoy your drink on the sly, like 'bada sahibs': Manjhi's advice to poor in dry Bihar

The Hindu  

Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Saturday advised underdogs of the dry State to learn the art of enjoying their drink on the sly from their wealthy counterparts whose bacchanalia does not land them in jails. Mr. Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha is a junior partner in the State's ruling coalition, made the remarks during a candid conversation with journalists in course of which he frowned upon the prohibition law introduced by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the umpteenth time. “Anarth ho rahaa hai”, remarked Mr. Manjhi referring to the arrest of a drunken man, reported in a section of the media, who had got tipsy after a day's hard work and squatted on the roadside causing a racket, only to be hauled up by the men in uniform who subjected him to a breath analyser test before throwing him behind bars. “These should emulate the bade sahibs who quietly enjoy a few pegs in the night and go to sleep and, hence, never get caught”, said Mr. Manjhi, iterating that there was “nothing wrong” in enjoying a drink or two and cited newspaper articles to assert that doing so was therapeutic.

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High on failure
2 months, 2 weeks ago

High on failure

Times of India  

Bihar’s Alcohol Ban and Prashant Kishor’s Bold Idea In Bihar, the government banned all kinds of alcohol, but it hasn’t gone as planned. But instead of solving problems, it caused new ones: Illegal Alcohol: Because people still wanted to drink, a huge illegal alcohol business started. Dangerous Alcohol: With illegal alcohol being made in secret, there were more accidents and …

Jitan Ram Manjhi appeals people in Bihar to vote for those who will lift liquor ban
1 year, 4 months ago

Jitan Ram Manjhi appeals people in Bihar to vote for those who will lift liquor ban

India TV News  

Bihar liquor ban: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Tuesday appealed to people to vote only for those who will lift the liquor ban in the state. While addressing people at Mangrawa Mahadalit Tola village in Gaya district yesterday, the Hindustani Awam Morcha chief said that liquor has been banned in the state since the last seven years, …

Bihar’s prohibition policy is not working
2 years ago

Bihar’s prohibition policy is not working

The Hindu  

The latest hooch tragedy in Bihar has put Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the backfoot. With the death toll rising to 38 and with several people losing their vision and becoming critically ill, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has appealed to Mr. Kumar to reconsider the government’s prohibition policy and pay compensation to the family members of those who died. …

Bihar hooch tragedy; Nitish Kumar insists kin of victims won’t get any government aid
2 years ago

Bihar hooch tragedy; Nitish Kumar insists kin of victims won’t get any government aid

The Hindu  

Asserting that prohibition will continue in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that “no compensation will be given to people who die after drinking spurious liquor”. Mr. Kishor, who is currently undertaking a Jan Suraaj Yatra across Bihar said, “People around Mr. Kumar drink liquor and he should rollback the prohibition police in 48 hours.” ‘No sympathy’ However, …

BJP MPs say Nitish Kumar should reconsider Bihar prohibition policy
2 years ago

BJP MPs say Nitish Kumar should reconsider Bihar prohibition policy

The Hindu  

Union Minister Giriraj Singh and Bihar BJP MPs in New Delhi have raised the demand that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar take a second look at the State’s prohibition policy. Personal prestige Pataliputra MP and former Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav echoed Mr. Singh’s view and said Mr. Kumar should not make prohibition a matter of personal prestige. He also …

'Spare those consuming quarter of liquor': Former Bihar CM Jitan Manjhi's suggestion to state govt
2 years, 1 month ago

'Spare those consuming quarter of liquor': Former Bihar CM Jitan Manjhi's suggestion to state govt

India Today  

Former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha leader Jitan Ram Manjhi has come out in support of people who "consume liquor in small quantities" in the state. Jitan Ram Manjhi urged the Nitish Kumar-led government to not arrest those who consume liquor in small quantities, like a quarter of bottle. Today, almost 70 per cent of people who are …

Those who consume alcohol are 'mahapaapi', says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 8 months ago

Those who consume alcohol are 'mahapaapi', says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

India Today  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called those who consume alcohol "mahapaapi" and said anyone who doesn't abide by the ideals of Bappu is not even an Indian. "If someone doesn't believe in the ideals of Bapu, then we don't even consider them an Indian.they are mahaayogya, mahapaapi who doesn't even listen to the father of the nation.," Nitish Kumar said …

‘Those who oppose Bapu’s principles against liquor consumption are not Indians, biggest sinners,’ says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Those who oppose Bapu’s principles against liquor consumption are not Indians, biggest sinners,’ says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

The Hindu  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar now has called those who oppose Mahatma Gandhi’s principles against liquor consumption as “not Indians, ‘mahapaapi’ and ‘maha ayogya’ ”. “Mahatma Gandhi Opposed liquor consumption and I consider those who go against Bapu’s principles as not Indians, ‘mahapaapi’ and ‘maha ayogya’. ‘Yogya to woh ho hi nahi sakte…unke liye koi sahanubhuti nahi’ ”, he said …

'Mahapaapi, Don't Consider Them Indians': Cornered Over Hooch Deaths, Nitish Kumar Clarifies on Relief
2 years, 8 months ago

'Mahapaapi, Don't Consider Them Indians': Cornered Over Hooch Deaths, Nitish Kumar Clarifies on Relief

News 18  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is facing criticism over hooch tragedies in the state, has called the people who consume liquor “Mahapaapi” and said the state government cannot be made liable for providing relief to those who die after consuming toxic liquor. Speaking in the Bihar Assembly after introduction and passage of an amendment bill that seeks to make …

Prohibition Won't Be Relaxed for Those Coming to Bihar from Elsewhere: Nitish Kumar
2 years, 11 months ago

Prohibition Won't Be Relaxed for Those Coming to Bihar from Elsewhere: Nitish Kumar

News 18  

Demands for relaxing the stringent prohibition law in Bihar for those coming to the state from outside were on Friday dismissed outright by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The chief minister, who made the state dry in April 2016, made his views known at a gathering in this north Bihar district, which he visited as part of a statewide social reform …

Led by CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar takes pledge against liquor consumption
3 years ago

Led by CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar takes pledge against liquor consumption

India Today  

Asserting that the liquor prohibition law in Bihar will be enforced "more effectively" henceforth, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, along with other public servants of the state, on Friday took an oath to abstain from alcohol consumption for the rest of their lives. "I, Nitish Kumar, today on November 26, 2011, at the premise of Gyan Bhawan, with complete probity taking …

The cost of prohibition: On spurt in hooch tragedies
3 years, 1 month ago

The cost of prohibition: On spurt in hooch tragedies

The Hindu  

The deaths in the last few days of at least 25 people in Bihar’s Gopalganj and West Champaran districts and five in Muzaffarpur apart from several others taking ill after consuming spurious liquor points to the unintended but not unexpected consequences of the total prohibition law that has been in effect in the State for more than five years. Yet, …

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