Thiruvananthapuram: CPI state secretary Kanam Rajendran on Saturday said that the liquor policy implemented by the UDF government will be discarded. "Oommen Chandy has no right to declare an everlasting liquor policy. There is a court order to announce a liquor policy every April. The LDF government's liquor policy will be a progressive one," Kanam Rajendran said.

He had earlier stated that the LDF would review the liquor policy if it came to power. "This does not mean to quash the present liquor policy. The left government would ponder on a new policy after studying the ill effects of the present liquor policy," Rajendran said.

He had earlier said that the left front's declared policy was promoting abstinence from liquor and not liquor prohibition. Like the solar scam the liquor policy introduced by the UDF government, that led to closure of over than 300 bars in the state, had evoked a heated debate in Kerala.