Click to play videoNew Delhi: As Punjab gears up to go to polls on Tuesday, the state government has decided that it’s perhaps just a little too early for the various candidates to pop the bubbly.
Therefore, alcohol has been prohibited in the state for 48 ahead of the elections.
However, that doesn’t seem to have stopped many from saying cheers and is a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance.
Truckloads of liquor are being transported and stocked across the state despite the ban. Crates are being given to villages in direct proportion to the number of voters living there.
Villagers say both the Congress and the Akalis are involved in the exercise.
So far, Barnala is the only place where police and excise officials have conducted a raid, recovering two truckloads of liquor in the process.
The police also seized about 1,600 boxes of whiskey and bags poppy husk meant for distribution among voters.
The liquor and drugs allegedly belonged to Congress candiate Kewal Dhillon contesting from Sangrur.
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