Amloh distillery is illegal: Manpreet - Alleges state government flouted norms in granting licence to sugar mill
Wednesday, 01/10/2014
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Amloh : People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) chief Manpreet Singh Badal along with hundreds of workers joined the protest of Amloh sub-division’s residents at the main chowk of the town. They have been protesting the setting up of a distillery in Kumbhra village.
The protestors had blocked the main crossing connecting Amloh, Khanna, Nabha and Mandi Gobindgarh road. The traffic had to be diverted.
Addressing the protesters, Manpreet said the government’s decision to issue a licence to Nahar Sugar Mills to set up the distillery was illegal. He said the authorities had flouted the norms by allowing the distillery to come up in a residential area. Manpreet said a distillery should be set up 6 km away from a residential area.
Manpreet said about 20 to 21 distilleries had already been set up in various parts of the state. He said setting up distilleries should not be the priority of the state government.
He further said the government should instead try to save the steel industries in Mandi Gobindgarh and other areas of the state. Manpreet said industrialists were shifting their units to neighboring states which were offering subsidies to them for setting up new units.
Manpreet lashed out at the bureaucracy and said it had surrendered to the ruling party. He urged the people to unite and throw out the unholy alliance of the SAD and the BJP in the state during the next Local Bodies Elections. He said the people should now vote according to their conscience.
Former PPCC chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, AAP Patiala MP Dr Dharmvira Gandhi, SGPC member Ravinder Khalsa and district Congress president Harinder Bhambri also joined the protest.
