By Sidharth Mishra
On the first working day of this year that is January 3, 2022, the city was brought to a grinding halt by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protesting against the new excise policy of Delhi Government. Those on roads that much cursed city’s opposition for having taken up an ‘irrelevant’ issue.
For Delhi Government, which has made spending beyond its income, a liberal excise policy help to keep the cash box clinging. With the Municipal Corporation polls round the corner, BJP has drawn a strategy to up the ante on the liquor issue and oppose Delhi Government’s liberal excise policy.
The new excise policy has a social context and a social concern too. Would it see a rerun of 1990s when the liquor propelled studs ran amuck in the city? There were several instances like the infamous BMW case, Jessical Lal case, which all had a late night liquor party as part of the script.
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