Aligarh hooch tragedy: Congress slams BJP govt in UP, calls for excise minister’s resignation

Hitting out on the Uttar Pradesh authorities over the hooch tragedies in Aligarh, which have claimed no less than 45 lives, the Congress on Sunday demanded the state’s Excise Minister Shriram Naresh Agnihotri’s resignation on ethical grounds.
UP Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh, in an announcement, alleged that the liquor mafias are having fun with authorities patronage which is why they’re working within the state “fearlessly”. “The BJP should tell how spurious liquor is being sold in the state. Why is it so that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has not summoned the excise minister?” he requested.
Later, in a tweet in Hindi, he stated, “News of deaths in the Aligarh hooch tragedies are continuously emerging. Till now, more than 100 people have died. Yogijee, your (excise) minister Shriram Naresh Agnihotri should have tendered his resignation on moral grounds.”

The key accused within the final month’s Aligarh hooch incident, which has claimed no less than 35 lives to this point, was nabbed within the early hours of Sunday, police stated.
Accused Rishi Sharma, who carried a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest, was held close to Bulandshahr border in western Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kalanidhi Naithani stated.
Sharma, whom the police described because the kingpin of the liquor mafia, was named in 13 completely different circumstances related to the current liquor tragedy and was nabbed this morning on the Aligarh-Bulandshshar border as he was about to slide out of the district after being holed up in his hideouts because the previous 9 days.

Officials on Friday stated that 9 individuals died after consuming spurious liquor discovered dumped in a canal close to Rohera village in Jawan space. Another man died on Friday in Aligarh’s Kodiyagunj village and officers hyperlink it with the identical inventory of liquor discovered within the canal close to Rohera village on June 2 by some brick kiln staff.
The 10 fatalities are other than individuals killed within the first tragedy which broke out on May 28, by which 35 individuals are confirmed to have died of liquor poisoning.