comes, ironically, from Gandhi's Dandi March (also called Salt March) 75 years ago, which protested the salt laws of the British rule in India. Gandhi, who also said that you have the duty to disobey unjust laws, was the chief proponent of an alcohol-free India. One of our objectives is to make a case that the context under which Gandhi instituted prohibition is not valid today. Today, alcohol prohibition in Gujarat is an outdated, corruption and crime breeding, short sighted law which must be systematically removed. Keeping up with Bapu's spirit, the Maltmarch community plans to march to the Sachivalay and have a drink in defiance of the prohibition law (date undecided). 
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It is a well known fact that prohibition has given rise to a very dangerous parallel industru "SPURIOUS LIQUOR". Most of the liquor one buys in Gujarat, including those labelled for the armed forces are likely to be spurious. Many a guys, to keep up social appearances, keep on buying this spurious stuff, which is otherwise undrinkable. We all know that this spurious stuff could lead to a lot of damage to the drinker.
In my view, in addition to activities for removal of prohibition, we should also pay back these bootleggers in their own coin. We should stop consuming liquor for at least two years. When these guys won't get any business, they will have no locus standi to pressurise the powers that be to continue with prohibition.
In order to ensure that the concerned officals keep on getting their No. 2 income, inspite of no prohibition, they should send a deputation to other states to find out what other means they have to generate unethical income.
Even the general people who support this shallow stand of prohibition are nothing but hypocrites steeped in wrong, self righteous notions about Gandhian ideals. Where are their ideals when they cheat their customers, when they defile the environment as if it is dooms day? When they defy all traffic rules? What are these so called "Social Workers" doing about other social evils like AIDS, superstition etc.? These are the same guys who would employ a child to do their dishes and sweep their floors.
It is time that these hypocrites are taken to task!
Ranjit,
agree with you in principle, but just like prohibition cannot be enforced by law, it also cannot be done to prove a point. People will drink, drink, drink whenever and wherever they want, law or no law, gandhi or no gandhi.
Problem is most drinkers in Gujarat are afraid to take a stand against prohibition. They have been brainwashed by the system in thinking drinking is wrong, which is an unhealthy way of looking at things. We should simply gather enough support to get people to admit they drink and will continue to drink, prohibition or not, gandhi or not. Its a fundamental right!
Devang
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