4 years on, Mizoram to be dry state again from April 1
TNN | Mar 10, 2019, 04:49 ISTAIZAWL: After a four-year hiatus, prohibition is set to make a comeback in Christian-majority Mizoram. The state cabinet on Friday approved the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition Bill, 2019, to be tabled in the upcoming assembly session beginning Tuesday. Mizoram had been a dry state for 17 years till 2015, when the ban was relaxed.
The Mizo National Front (MNF) had made the return of prohibition a key promise in the run-up to the assembly election in November last year. This promise saw MNF return to power after 10 years and form government with Zoramthanga as CM. MNF has the numbers in the House to pass the bill. Soon after the decision, commissioner of the state excise and narcotics department Ngurchungnunga Sailo issued a notification asking “all owners of bonded warehouses, liquor vendors, micro-breweries and holders of liquor licences in clubs, government lodgings or hotels” to “dispose of all their stocks before March 31”.
The Mizo National Front (MNF) had made the return of prohibition a key promise in the run-up to the assembly election in November last year. This promise saw MNF return to power after 10 years and form government with Zoramthanga as CM. MNF has the numbers in the House to pass the bill. Soon after the decision, commissioner of the state excise and narcotics department Ngurchungnunga Sailo issued a notification asking “all owners of bonded warehouses, liquor vendors, micro-breweries and holders of liquor licences in clubs, government lodgings or hotels” to “dispose of all their stocks before March 31”.
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