Sushil Modi has demanded that Lalu should use his position in the Mahagathbandhan government to scrap the draconian Bihar Prohibition & Excise Bill 2016. Photo credit: PTI

A day after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar made a complete U-turn of including toddy in the list of intoxicants and later excluding it from the newly drafted Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act, 2016 apparently under pressure from RJD President Lalu Prasad, former Deputy CM Sushil Modi asked Lalu to use his veto power to scrap the draconian bill.

NOT LALU'S JOB

Nitish government had first included toddy in list of intoxicants to be banned in the state while tabling the bill in the Assembly on Friday but sources say that Lalu's intervention compelled the government to take a U-turn.

However, former Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi asserted that it was the pressure from the BJP, LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan and HAM Chief Jitan Ram Manjhi that forced the government to roll back it decision.

IT'S A TALIBANI LAW: PM MODI

Now, Sushil Modi has demanded that Lalu should use his position in the Mahagathbandhan government to scrap the draconian Bihar Prohibition & Excise Bill 2016. He said that the same bill was 'Talibani' in nature as it provisioned arresting and sending to jail all the members of the family above 18 years of age if liquor was found in their house.

"If someone throws an empty bottle of liquor into Lalu's and Rabri Devi's house at night, both Lalu and Rabri along with their minister sons will have to go to jail. Why should the entire family face punishment for the crime of one person ?", said Sushil Modi.

Modi said, when the new law comes into force it will become so draconian that nobody would be able to get bail. He said that seizure of family from whose house liquor bottles are found and life imprisonment to the accused was Talibani in nature.

"Even in cases of rape and dacoity, there is provision for punishment for few years but possessing liquor bottles would attract life imprisonment", said Modi.

