YSRC is committed to its anti-liquor stance and will support agitations by women against liquor, district president Gudivada Amarnath has said.
“Women leaders of our party would go to people and take up agitations in a big way,” Mr Amarnath said at a press conference here on Wednesday. The party had made its stand clear on phasing out liquor at its two-day plenary and passed a resolution on it, he said.
If 75 % liquor traders belonged to YSRC as was being alleged by TDP leaders, the government could stop the trade and none knew what prevented it from doing so, he said. Mr. Amarnath said apart from the main resolutions, including on land scandals in Visakhapatnam district and Railway zone for it, eight other resolutions pertaining to the district were passed at the YSRC plenary. They included ₹ 3500 a ton for sugarcane to help improve condition of three sugar factories, finding a solution to the Simhachalam lands issue, cancellation of GO 97 on bauxite mining kept in abeyance, declaring health emergency to ensure better medical care to tribals in the Agency and bringing Polavaram water to cater to domestic and industrial needs.
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