Gujarat can live without alcohol ban

107 dies of drinking home-made alcohol, Modi should resign, hooch available despite crackdown. It seems that the time has come when the state government of Gujarat should allow the sell of alcohol in authorised shops. We are living in 21st century, India is free country, why a state should ban alcohol? All these questions seems relevant and logical but it can not be allowed in the state where Gandhi was born.

Does Gandhi belong to only one state? No one ask this question? Why not ban alcohol in whole India? Are we really following the teachings of Gandhi? Rural empowerment and Hindu-Muslim harmony, for example. Answer are unanimously NO. Then why this hypocracy in Gujarat? It is more political than social. Something started by Congress party and being followed by successive governments. This topic is a burning hot potato that no one wants to touch or talk about. If Modi government decide to lift the ban then Congress will play political card and try to dismiss the Gujarat government. Though some people drink alcohol in Gujarat but it is not a mass practice, I believe. A large number of people would not like the idea of making alcohol legal in the state. They will care if some people die of drinking illegal alcohol. What does matter to the parties are number of votes in next elections and not social reforms.

If the political parties really want to legalise the sell of alcohol in the state they should come together and pass a resolution in the state assembly. They may first need to come in public and say they want to lift the ban. Parties may need to educate their workers at grass root level to pass the message that it is for public good and not to hurt the feelings of Gandhi's.

At the moment, even the families and relatives of the deceased will accuse their dead relative for drinking alcohol at the first place. A large number of them are, generally, low paid daily wage workers. Alcohol brings family tension and drain on the resources, it is hated by the family members, anyway. They might show outrage feeling when provoked by the national media but they will settle down and forget this tragedy eventually. No loss of vote bank.

We might think the policy is wrong in current time but first people need the social change to accept the new policy of legalising alcohol sell in the state before anything can happen.