Patna,(BiharTimes): Eleven days after receiving invitation from women of Jharkhand, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday got a call from women of Maharashtra to guide their anti-liquor campaign.

A team of women from the western Indian state called on him at his camp residence at 7, Circular Road in Patna after his return from Kerala and Delhi. They congratulated the chief minister for enforcing total prohibition in Bihar.

Led by the president of Chandrapur’s Shramik Elgar Group, Paromita Goswami, the team members invited Nitish to participate in ongoing anti-liquor campaign in Chandrapur and some other districts in Maharasthra after month of June.

“We are here to invite Nitish Kumar to join and guide our anti-liquor campaign in Maharashtra. He has accepted our invitation and assured to join our programmes,” she later said.

Goswami said the women in Maharashtra are very impressed by the his decision to enforce total prohibition.

According to her prohibition was implemented in Chandrapur district on April 1, 2015 but ban on the sale of liquor could not be completely enforced. Therefore, women groups want the guidance of Nitish to ensure complete enforcement of ban on sale and use of liquor. Prohibition has been implemented on paper in Wardha and Garhchiroli districts as well.
But the BJP-Shiv Sena government has failed to enforce the ban.

Apart from Goswami, Rajani Hazare, Nanda Aluwar, Chhaya Siddham, Sangita Kadam, Shahnaz Beg, Farzana Sheikh and Sapna Kalmadi were present on the occasion.

They offered him a shawl and garlands.

Women groups of another BJP ruled state, Jharkhand, had on April 27 met Nitish in Patna and invited him for participating their anti-liquor campaign.

On the invitation of Jharkhand Nari Sangharsh Morcha Bihar chief minister is visiting Dhanbad on May 10 to participate in a programme for total ban on liquor. The Morcha has been demanding for imposition of total liquor ban in Jharkhand for the last few years but the government has failed

The repeated call from BJP-ruled states in particular is a cause of concern for the saffron party as it gives Nitish a big stick to beat them at the national level and respective governments at the state-level. After all Gujarat too has failed to fully implement prohibition in the last 46 years though on paper sale of liquor was banned at the time of its creation in 1960.

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