Uma Bharti vandalises liquor shop in Bhopal

Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti vandalised a liquor shop in Bhopal on Sunday.

The BJP leader was seen throwing a rock inside the liquor shop, in a video shared by herself on Twitter. She has been demanding prohibition in the state and had announced that she would launch a protest outside liquor shops.

The former Union minister said she has warned the local administration to shut down the liquor shop within a week.

Last year, she had declared that she would have liquor banned in the state by January 15 or “hit the streets with a stick”. However, the Madhya Pradesh government announced a new excise policy just two days after her deadline, making alcohol cheaper. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh’s government reduced the excise duty on foreign liquor by 10-13 per cent.