Dry Christmas, New Year In Mizoram As State Aims For Total Prohibition
The new MNF government in Mizoram, led by Zoramthanga, has kept its main poll promise. In the first cabinet meeting held today in state capital Aizawl, the new government has decided to ban the sale of liquor by government sale unit with immediate effect and for private vendors a carpet ban has been imposed on the sale of liquor from December 21 to January 14. Thus Mizoram, a Christian majority state, will have a dry Christmas this time.
After the MNF won the assembly polls with a landslide victory, Zoramthanga was sworn in as the chief minister of Mizoram for the third time on Saturday.
Total prohibition was first imposed in Mizoram in 1997 when the Congress was in power; in 2015 the total liquor ban was lifted by a regulated liqours access through the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition and Control Act, 2014.
The church has been in favour of the liquor ban and the MNF made it a major poll promise. Since the church in Mizoram is very powerful, the promise by the MNF was seen in line with the desire of the church.