Liquor Ban in Kerala – Idiocracy at its Best

Kerala – Gearing up for liquor ban

It’s all over the press, digital space and people are reacting to it. Kerala Government has an audacious, short sighted plan to ban liquor. For a second, I couldn’t believe what I saw on the newspaper. Are we nuts that’s my first reaction! And I’m damn angry about these creeps who comes with such knee-jerk legislations.

Slowly, it dawned on me the real implications of this ban – if it comes into affect in 2015. This throws up a lot of favorite questions, and wakes up many demons in my mind.

Few questions:

1. Is Kerala becoming a regressive society?
2. How can politicians act so irrationally, and we dumb public just blindly follow? 
3. Have they made any alternative employment plans for people who will be rendered jobless?
4. What about the welfare and future of people dependent on this revenue?
5. What about its impact on tourism? (The moment I said this news to a colleague, he said he will forget visiting Kerala. There goes his 20k to Goa.) 

Booze only for Rich  – What an idea?

6. What is the additional cost of imposing the ban? 
7. Is our exercise or police department capable or trained or managed to enforce ban?

Few tweet from the Twitter space

• Liquor Ban in Kerala. Now we will see a Black Economy like Gujarat where Liquor available easily available and Politicians/Police earning from it
• Liquor in Kerala is the second most important liquid after coconut oil. I don’t see how prohibition will work in Mallusia.
• Prohibition hasn’t worked in Gujarat & will not succeed in Kerala. Regressive idea by hypocritical netas who drink but don’t want others to.
• The people who considered banning alcohol in Kerala must have done it under the influence of alcohol. No other explanation.
• BREAKING: Gujarati bootleggers looking to expand business in Kerala as state may impose prohibition
• Damn! All the Hindu intolerance and Gujarat moral policing jokes based on alcohol prohibition will now move to Kerala!!
• Hahaha, what next? Banning fish in Bengal & chicken in Punjab?
• Funniest thing I’ve read today. The Congress in Kerala has proposed prohibition in the state. In Kerala!
• Bootleggers rejoice! Prohibition on the sale of liquor in Kerala will be introduced in a phased manner-
• So much for our 100% “literacy” and Kerala model of social progress… This is shameful 

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Today, 11/10/2014, as I write this, I somehow feel liquor price hike is somehow a diversion tactic from the Government. Are they real about the law or just doing a teaser?

18/112014 – the gridlock exists. I don’t want to know the drama happening in Kerala. It makes me mad.

31/12/2014 Visited Ruby Arena bar at Medical College, Tvm. Ordered a beer when it was approaching 10 PM. No beer sir was the reply. Left disappointed, angry. Vouched not to buy booze from Kerala. Get it all the way from Bangalore. Why pay my tax here? logical, isn’t.