Ban on country liquor makes women happy in Bihar

Shanti Devi, a Scheduled Caste sanitation worker with the Red Cross in Bhabua in Bihar, is for the first time in her life a happy woman. Her husband, Nanhak Ram, used to have his regular 400 ml of country liquor, is off drink, suffering from cirrhosis, and is now going through the throes of withdrawal of sysmptoms. Nanhak Ram had to be hospitalized, but still Shanti Devi is in seventh heaven like millions other women in Bihar, because their husbands are off drink. Not only that, Nanhak Ram had not abused her or beat her up in many days. With the partial enforcement of prohibition in Bihar, country liquor is of the shelves in the State. There is, however, restricted sale of Indian-made foreign liquor. Shanti Devi is so thankful to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that she has no words. She is indebted to Nitish. Along with her, the women in Kamipur, Rohtas and Bhojpur districts are also happy. In fact, women in Muzaffarpur district are for total prohibition. It's women movement for prohibition at many places in the country. There was the case of Roshamma of Dubgunta in Nellore in the early 90s, because of which the then Chief Minister NT Rama Rao had to introduce prohibition in the combined AP.