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Punjab Health minister thinks booze is not an "intoxicant"
Chandigarh: Bizzare it may sound but Punjab Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani does not consider 'sharab' (booze) an intoxicant."I don't think 'sharab' (booze) is an intoxicant. You cannot call alcohol an intoxicant. It is (consumed) there in the Army, parties."The government gives licences for manufacturing liquor, we auction liquor vends. As long as it is done, sharab cannot be called...
"I don't think 'sharab' (booze) is an intoxicant. You cannot call alcohol an intoxicant. It is (consumed) there in the Army, parties.
"The government gives licences for manufacturing liquor, we auction liquor vends. As long as it is done, sharab cannot be called 'nasha' (intoxicant)," Jyani told journalists during an interaction after inaugurating a de-addiction centre in his constituency Badal on Sunday.
Incidentally, Punjab has been facing the problem of drug addiction, which once prompted Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to claim 7 out of every 10 youth in the state were addicts.
Meghna A Singhania is the founder and Editor-in-Chief at Medical Dialogues. An Economics graduate from Delhi University and a post graduate from London School of Economics and Political Science, her key research interest lies in health economics, and policy making in health and medical sector in the country.She is a member of the Association of Healthcare Journalists. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751