Actor Suriya has condemned the Tamil Nadu government’s failure to stop bootleg liquor.
In a statement issued in this regard, he said, “50 consecutive deaths in a small town is a tragedy that does not happen even during calamities such as storms, rains and floods. It is alarming that more than a hundred people are still in the hospital. The successive deaths and the cries of the victims are heart-wrenching.
What words can console those who cry after sacrificing their loved ones to fake liquor? Now political parties, movements, media and people have increased their attention, concern and anger. It is comforting that the government and administration are acting quickly and struggling to reduce the losses. But this conventional approach of short-term solution to a long-term problem will definitely not work.
Last year, 22 people died after drinking fake alcohol mixed with methanol in Villupuram district. The government promised to take serious action. Now in the neighboring district, people have died in droves after drinking the same methanol-laced fake liquor. It is very sad that no change has happened till now.
We continue to see the plight of the people of Tamil Nadu, who vote to improve their lives, and the governments that have ruled us for more than twenty years alternately by placing Tasmac and forcing people to drink. ‘Alcoholism policy’ ends up being nothing more than an election time slogan for all political parties.
Drug addicts who drink at Tasmak for Rs 150 buy fake liquor available for Rs 50 when they don’t have money. When will we all realize that the problem of alcoholics is not an individual problem, it is the problem of each family, the whole society?.
The governments themselves should encourage drinking and immediately stop the violence they have been perpetrating against their own people for 2 years. Rehabilitation centers should be started in every district to recover the addicts from alcoholism. Just as the government implements visionary action plans for the advancement of students in education, similarly exemplary programs for the rehabilitation of alcoholics should be devised and implemented as a movement.
Only if the government and political parties act with foresight, such tragic deaths can be prevented in the future. Along with the people, I hope with hope that the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu will pass the short-term solution and take decisions in the interest of the people on the prohibition policy.
Strong condemnation of the administration for failing to stop the sale of illegal liquor. Deep condolences to the dead. Praying for the recovery of those in hospital. henceforth let us make a new law. We will protect it forever,” he said.
