Pattali Makkal Katchi (PM) cadre led by party leader Anbumani Ramadoss, MP, staged a demonstration in front of the collectorate here on Monday to press for total prohibition in the state.
The protesters raised slogans urging the government to close down all the Tasmac retail outlets in the state and implement total prohibition policy.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss said that PMK was the only party which has been consistent in its demand for the past quarter century for the closure of Tasmac shops and introduction of total prohibition policy in the state.
He condemned the state government for opening a large number of Tasmac shops ignoring the interest of the future generation. Every village has a sizeable number of widows, whose husbands suffered untimely death for being liquor addicts. Both the AIADMK and DMK regimes have to be blamed for the present state of affairs.
If PMK was voted to power in the forthcoming Assembly elections, Dr. Anbumani promised that his first signature would be for the abolition of liquor shops.
