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'Old wine in new bottle'
By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, DEC. 6. The State Government decision to allow sale of cheap Indian Made Foreign Liquor has been criticised by the main Opposition parties, DMK and PMK.
The DMK president, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, recalled that it was his Government which first came up with the cheap liquor scheme. But the AIADMK general secretary, Ms. Jayalalithaa, ``vociferously criticised'' this policy and when she came to power in 1991, withdrew it. ``But now the same people are bringing it back,'' he said.
Asked whether he supported the move, Mr. Karunanidhi said he was merely recalling history.
The PMK founder, Dr. S. Ramadoss, said the ``curse of womenfolk will not spare the AIADMK.''
Coming down heavily on the lowering of duty for cheap IMFL, he said that when the aim of most parties was prohibition, the AIADMK Government's decision could not be accepted.
Cheap IMFL would not wipe out illicit arrack, he said. It would only enable liquor barons to fill their coffers. Manufacturers could colour their arrack and pass it off as cheap IMFL.
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