Summary:
By opening all doors to foreign liquor mafia, the LDF government is trying to submerge the state in liquor. But recently, the government has given permission to 17 foreign liquor companies for the indiscriminate sale of their products, through star hotels to beer-wine parlours. It’s to check the pilferage of tax revenue the government has decided to give sanction for the authorised sale of FMFL through beverage outlets. As per SRO number 223/2007, excise commissioner is authorized to give licence for the sale of FMFL through bar hotels and beer-wine parlours by collecting annual fee of Rs 25,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively. The minister told a news conference that the opposition was trying to create a smokescreen by making baseless allegations.“Sale of FMFL is there in the state since 2007..