From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party’ national spokesman Dr Sambit Patra has come down heavily on AAP’s Delhi government on the new excise policy of privatising the liquor trade in the national capital it abandoned a month ago with the entire trade reversed to its own agencies from Thursday.
He told a press conference here on Thursday that the retailers were getting Rs 33 on each bottle of 750ML and Rs 330 were going to the treasury under the old liquor policy while the new policy gave Rs 363 per bottle to the retailers and only Rs 8 going to the treasury.
Patra posed five questions to Chief Minister Kejriwal and his excise minister Manish Sisodia, including why the government revenue went down under new liquor policy despite a big increase in the sale of liquor in Delhi. Other questions he raised are:
— Why a report of a 3-member panel on the new excise policy submitted on March 1, 2021 was discarded for separate dealing with the wholesale and retail sales?
— Why blacklisted companies were given contracts?
— Why the commission on the liquor vends raised from 2% to 12%? and
— Why the liquor mafia were returned the security deposit of Rs 144 crore without the Cabinet approval?
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