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NEW DELHI, KOMPAS.com – Police in India are beating batons to unravel the masses who line up at the liquor store.
The queue came after the government began loosening blocking rules to combat the spread of Covid-19 in the past 40 days.
Several state leaders decided that liquor stores could be opened first, considering alcohol sales as their main income.
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The Delhi government, for example. On Monday night local time, they applied a special crown price “by 70 percent to boost regional revenue.
Since the end of March, the Indian government has implemented the world’s largest blockade to break the chain of pandemic Covid-19 infections.
Reported AFP On Tuesday (5/5/2020), the country with a population of 1.3 billion people reported 42,500 positive cases of the corona virus with 1,400 deaths.
As a result of the quarantine implementation, millions of migrant workers lost their livelihoods and were a severe blow to Asia’s third largest economy.
Last April, the authorities imposed an exemption on the agriculture and industry sectors to move their business wheels again.
Then on Monday, several offices were opened as long as only a third of the capacity could be filled. Several vehicles also reportedly began to cross the streets.
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Authorities have drawn a chalk circle as a sign that people obey social restrictions when waiting in line.
However, the effort failed because the masses had gathered since morning. “We have been locked up for a month,” said Asit Banerjee.
“Alcohol will certainly give us energy to overcome this outbreak,” said the 55-year-old Calcutta citizen.
To order people, the police in Delhi and other big cities use lathi, long bamboo sticks.
In Ghaziabad, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the police immediately closed a liquor store shortly after it opened due to a massive queue.
“One of the stores opened in the morning. However, riots broke out as soon as the mass had gathered,” said an unidentified police officer.
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However, hundreds of people did not give up and either went to the next city or kept waiting in the hope that the alcohol store would reopen.
“I do this because I have nothing to do at home,” said Deepak Kumar, a 30-year-old resident waiting on the streets of Delhi.
Sagar, a 25-year-old man, admitted that he was lucky to be able to buy what he wanted when he went to the store at 07:30 local time.
“There are about 20-25 people who have been lining up since the morning. For two hours, five people were allowed in before closing again,” said Sagar, who bought some wine.
In other states, such as Maharashtra, several liquor stores decided to remain closed because there was confusion over who might open.
Although it is illegal in various places like Gujarat, the hometown of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alcohol consumption has increased in recent years.
The reason, the number of middle class in the state of “Bollywood” has increased.
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