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Mrunal Current Polity: Love Jihad, Kerala Liquor Policy

- Mrunal - http://mrunal.org -

[Current] Polity SepW1: DESI liquor special edition

Kerala, Mizoram & IPS Training, Love Jihad, Tribal
insurgency
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Mizoram permits DESI liquor

Kerala wants to ban DESI Liquor
IPS training academy bans DESI liquor
Tribal insurgency in pre and post-independent India
Love Jihad

Mizoram permits DESI liquor

1995: Mizoram passed law to completely ban liquor.
But later Government feels that total prohibition has harmed the statebecause juntaa still drinking Deshi and dying because of hooch. (Zahrilisharaab).
2014: new act, lifts total prohibition from the state.
Now anyone above 21 years can drink- both deshi as well as videshi liquor.
But hell need permit.
New act raised fines and jail-terms for all type of drinking related offences.
Any citizen can arrest drunkards but they have to hand them over to police or
Excise and Narcotics officials.

Kerala wants to ban DESI Liquor

New liquor policy to apply total prohibition within 10 years in phased manner
Anti-Government argument

individual discipline and

not State discipline is what
is required.
The policy will also affect
state income and tourism
industry- lakhs of people
employed directly and
indirectly.

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Pro arguments
Kerala has highest per capita
consumption of liquor- families are
broken, household savings are eroded.
Constitution doesnt provide
Fundamental Right to sell liquor to
those bar owners. They were given
licenses and the State has right to
cancel licenses.
Liquor is outside the purview of
commerce in art19.
State has power to impose restriction
on liquor trade, or create its own agency
to sell liquor. This doesnt violate art14
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(equality before law).

Anyways, Under this policy, State Government planned to cancel bar licences
of all hotels below the category of five-star (from 12-September onwards).
Obviously, those bar owners did not like it, NOT ONE BIT. so they went to
HC and then to SC.
SC stayed the govt. order because of following reasons:
flaw in the policy- drunkards can still goto five star hotels or the zero star
Toddy shops!
Policy is discriminatory and against constitutional right of equality if state
wants to impose prohibition then ban should be equally imposed on all the
liquor selling shops- irrespective of stars.
Only 10% of the govt. outlet will be closed every year.
Govt. should educate the mass against harmful effects of liquor before the
sudden and outright ban on the small liquor shop.

IPS training academy bans DESI liquor

Aruna Bahuguna: first lady director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National
Police Academy (SVPNPA), Hyderabad.
SVPNPA = place where IPS probationers are trained.
But recently a trainee IPS died after drowning in the swimming pool, under
the influence of liquor.
Therefore, Director has banned all types of liquor in the academy.

Tribal insurgency in pre and post-independent India

just some fodder points based on a book review in thehindu
Under British rule:
The British passed Forest Acts (1878, 1927) banned -shifting cultivation,
foraging, grazing and hunting in Indian jungles.
British kept the tribal areas under their direct administration through
Governors and kept their forest almost intact until they left India.
This negatively affected the livelihoods of tribes- leading to rebellions.
The British branded their protests as savage attacks, and used extreme
violence to impose Colonial-civilisation on these savages.
Konds of Odisha- they spill blood to worship their deity under Meriah rite.
But British branded it as human sacrifice.
Under Free India:
Since 1980s, Central and Eastern India became the perfect guerrilla terrain
for the Naxalites.
This region is home to a large tribal population. The Maoist movement spread
in these tribal belts because they Promised to end their historical
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marginalisation; and managed to build intimacy with local people, overriding

differences of caste or tribe.
UPA Government took away nearly 1.2 lakh ht. of forest land and gave it to
MNCs for mining and power projects.
Tribal made to work in the most dangerous parts of mines and steel plants, for
petty wages. Thus, even the new civilised Indian are keeping them as
primitive as possible.

Love Jihad
ofcourse this is not part of mains syllabus. But, some eccentric UPSC interview
panel-members asking such things.

Love Jihad

Hitler

is an alleged conspiracy by Muslim men to entice, marry and

convert Hindu women to Islam.
BJP, RSS, ABVP, BJP yuva morcha et al, have joined hands to
fight love jihad in Western Uttar Pradesh.
Made similar allegations in his book Mein Kampf. That Jew men
were trapping German Christian women, thus polluting their racial
purity.

Deoband

If a boy/girl converts religion just for the sake of marriage, it

is illegal. If Hindu girls are forced into Islam, that is also
illegal.
urged Muslim youths to avoid such a (marriage) situation that
gave the BJP an opportunity to target the entire community.

Sunni
clerics

A few isolated cases of inter-religion marriage.

But Media and political parties are sensationalizing it.
There is no such systematic campaign by Muslims to convert
Hindu women.

UP
Government
Maneka
Gandhi
Rajnath
Singh
Mrunal

said in Highcourt, there is no Love-jihad in UP. (only Goonda-raj

and Nakal-maafia)
Have not received any such complaint so far, in ministry of women
and child.
Home minister is yet to study this term.
We need following reform:

Few yearsback, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh gave a suggestion -all the state
assembly elections and parliament elections should be done simultaneously. Right
now, there is some election or byelection here and there every few months, and as a
result
1. Parties 24/7 involved in appeasement, sensationlization, communalism,
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pseudo-secularism, casteism, regionalism. But, none of them remembers

Godhara, Love Jihad or Muzaffarnagar etc. once the election is over.
even if party wants to reform (say leaving all communal-secular-caste thing
and focus on rebuilding party with development agenda), yet there is not
enough timegap- because there is some stupid election around the corner. so
they have to fall back yet again to same communal-secular-caste thing as to
stay in the debate.
Lot of black money spent, to win such elections.
Both Union and state governments announce lot of election-freebies, waste
public money in newspaper ads to showcase their achievements- just before
the model code of conduct begins.
and When it comes to taking bold steps like petrol price hike, railway fare
hike or removing LPG subsidies- they use the same model code of conduct
as an excuse for not doing so.

Follow up to that1. One person should be allowed to contest from one place only (so there is no
vacant post and bypolls when they resign from one seat).
2. there should be no by-polls anywhere. If someone is dead, arrested or resigns
from the seat, consider it empty till the five year cycle ends. Because absence
or presence of one MP/MLA doesnt really affect ground development.
Government can handover the MPLADS funds district administration directlyafter all theyre the ones responsible to implementation.

Published on 18/09/2014 @ 8:15 pm under Category: Current Affairs Weekly

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