Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has targeted the BJP government over the death of Junagadh allegedly due to consumption of spurious liquor, amid preparations for the Gujarat assembly elections.
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Gujarat Of Junagadh Two people died after drinking spurious liquor in the district. The police gave this information on Tuesday, but said that it was not an incident caused by spurious liquor. Additional Director General of Police Rajkumar Pandian said two autorickshaw drivers, Rafiq Dhodhri and Bharat Pidhariya, died soon after consuming suspicious liquid in Gandhi Chowk area of the city between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm on Monday. After this incident, the Bharatiya Janata Party has come under attack from the Congress.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has targeted the BJP government over the death of Junagadh allegedly due to consumption of spurious liquor, amid preparations for the Gujarat assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi said that drug addiction is going on in the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. He said that yesterday again people died due to spurious liquor in Gujarat which had banned liquor. On the one hand there is prohibition of show off, on the other hand people are dying due to poisonous liquor and drugs. Government is giving poison instead of employment.
Rahul Gandhi targeted by tweeting
In ‘Dry State’ Gujarat, people died again yesterday due to spurious liquor!
On the one hand, the prohibition of liquor, on the other hand, people are dying due to poisonous liquor and drugs – instead of employment, the government is giving poison.
This is BJP’s ‘Gujarat Model’! The land of Gandhi-Sardar has been intoxicated.#RejectBJP
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 29, 2022
Rahul Gandhi tweeted that ‘People died due to spurious liquor in the dry state of Gujarat yesterday! On the one hand, there is a show off liquor ban, on the other hand, people are dying due to poisonous liquor and drugs – instead of employment, the government is giving poison. This is BJP’s ‘Gujarat Model’! The land of Gandhi-Sardar has been intoxicated.
Postmortem revealed poisonous substance
Regarding the incident, Pandian said that both the people were taken to Junagadh Civil Hospital, where they were declared brought dead. The Additional Director General of Police told the media that the postmortem revealed the presence of toxic substances in the viscera of the dead. He said that we immediately sent the substance for forensic examination. Ethanol and cyanide were found in it. It did not contain methanol, which is a sign of death from alcohol poisoning.
Police engaged in investigation
The officer said that both had mixed poisonous substance in the liquor before drinking it. He said that investigation is on to find out who had supplied the poisonous liquid to the two. Pandian said, “We are probing whether someone made him drink liquids.” We will go through the CCTV footage and call details of his mobile phone to trace his movements in the last three days.
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