No booze for 48 hours before polls
BY A GT REPORTER
PANJIM: More than 30 bar owners marched to Goa State Election Commission (GSEC) office in Altinho to meet the chief electoral officer Ajit Srivastava with their plea to allow serving of liquors for weddings, yesterday.
According to GSEC sources, about three weddings are to be held today and family members as well as brides came to request the CEO to allow serving liquors with conditions, though.
“The group had sent a request letter to Excise department and it was then forwarded to GSEC to look into the issue. The GSEC had faxed the application to Election Commission of India to consider the request. However, the ECI put down the proposal,” the source told GT.
It is a general rule that no hard drinks would be served or sold 48-hours before a state goes to polls or on dry days.
The election code of conduct is also in force throughout the country.
