Press Release
Protest on Demanding inquiry on the murder of Anti Liquor Activist Sasi Perumal in Tamil Nadu
Civil Societies in New Delhi protest in front of Tamil Nadu house demanding inquiry on the Death of Gandhian Sasi Perumal and to implement the Tamil Nadu Peoples demand of total prohibition. The demonstration led by People Movments Against Liquor and Drugs(PMALD), Khudai Khidmatgar, National Alliance of peoples Movement (NAPM), Sarvodaya Mandal, Lok Samiti and other civil society organization.
Anti Liquor protest in Tamil Nadu has increased the voice with the people involvement for the demand with the state Government. Various social organizations are effectively doing their struggle on this issue, since the relaxation and promotion of sale has been initiated by the state Government, whenever the matter of total prohibition comes to the Govt concern they just say that the state government is getting 30% of total revenue from the liquor consumption. The people who consume the liquor are daily wages, from economically very poor background, semi skilled labours and like groups, now a days a large number of Youths and Student began consuming these liquors from the Govt approved TASMAC shops all over Tamil Nadu.
It has resulted in various forms of violence that targets the women in large like domestic and sexual, the death of newly married youth since he became addict for the liquor leads to his wife a window in a shorter period of time, increase in deaths due to over consumption of liquor, apart from that various forms of anti social activities being increased in a easier way after the consumption of liquors, there are several villages in Tamil Nadu which shows us a large number of windows and even the Children became orphans.
Several protests, demonstrations, arrests, yatras, being initiated by various groups and individual but the state Government is not at all ready to accept it, as a part of these series of protest Gandian Sasiperumal struggle for the anti liquor protest held in a village of Kanyakumari district on 31st July 2015, during this protest he claimed on the nearby mobile tower to expose the peoples demand (Total Prohibition) to the Govt, instead of hearing the demand the police personnel went closer to him in the mobile tower after 6 hours long protest when he agreed to get down from the tower he was murdered by the police personnel, and the Government has not yet filed the complaint on the concern officials or giving his dead body to his family members to perform the last funeral.
Even after a week the state government had failed to take any initiative or response on this issue, through these protest the appeal from the civil societies with Tamil Nadu State Government are as follows.
1. Implement Total prohibition in Tamil Nadu in favour of protecting the people interest, particularly the Women, Children and aged person.
2. To set up fast inquiry on the death of Anti Liquor activist Sasi Perumal and take necessary action on the concern police officials who were presented in the spot during this incidence.
3. Stop Atrocities on Women, Students and Handicapped who are involving in protest against the government, since it is the rights to expression of every citizen.
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