Demand for prohibition set to make a comeback to T.N.’s political discourse after a gap of 10 years
Critics and sections of historians had held the then DMK chief, M. Karunanidhi, responsible for lifting prohibition in 1971 and making people ‘familiar with the habit’ of drinking; he justified it citing State’s financial constraints; he made a U-turn before the 2016 polls and said he would take ‘intensive measures’ to implement prohibition, if voted to power
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Critics and sections of historians had held the then DMK chief, M. Karunanidhi, responsible for lifting prohibition in 1971 and making people ‘familiar with the habit’ of drinking; he justified it citing State’s financial constraints; he made a U-turn before the 2016 polls and said he would take ‘intensive measures’ to implement prohibition, if voted to power
