Should you drink alcohol on Gandhi Jayanti?

Three arrested for selling liquor on Gandhi Jayanti
TNN 4 October 2009, 06:40am IST

BERHAMPORE: The Murshidabad excise department arrested three persons on Friday night for selling foreign liquor on Gandhi Jayanti, a dry day.

Qamar Jalees, additional superintendent of excise (Murshidabad), said they had been tipped off that some people were selling foreign liquor illegally in Yashohari-Anukha village under Kandi PS. "Around 10 pm, we raided the area and nabbed three persons, Nirmal Pal, Goutam Mukherjee and Jagannath Das, and seized 136 litres of foreign liquor," he said.

"There is a liquor shop next to the place where the trio was selling liquor. We suspect the owner is associated with the gang," Jalees said

I have never seen such hypocracy.
I wonder what was the crime, selling liquor or selling it on Gandhi Jayanti.
As per the government, you can drink the rest of the year but Gandhi Jayanti is a definite NO-NO.
Our governments pay no attention as the likes of Vijay Mallya fill their coffers with his ill-gotten wealth.
You smirk when I say ill-gotten.
Any wealth which creates anguish in another is ill-gotten.
Ask the wife of any drunkard who wastes his salary on alcohol and has nothing left for the family, or has died after taking spurious liquor.
Does not the wife curse all those associated with the manufacture and trade of alcohol, used for human consumption?
It has become the "in" thing for anyone who has risen slightly economically to take a bottle in hand otherwise what will the "educated" society think of him.
It is shocking that even wives accompany their husbands in their drinking spree.
Some do it so that the spouses do not have to drink outside their homes.
In some cases, whole families, father, mother, sons and daughters drink at the same table.
This is acceptable in the western decadent culture since the climate their is cold.
But following them in India, just because they do it is foolish.
Yes, I agree, it is your money you are spending. No one doubts it.
But it could have been spent on something better than the poison you are drinking.
The solution is not in arresting them on one day and allowing them to drink on others.
The solution lies in weening them away from this habit so that they do not waste their money and can take care of their families. To hell with Viajy Mallya and his gang of boot-leggers.
Yes, the government will lose some revenue but that will be made up by having a healthier and happier population