Congress slams Goa government, alleges Rs 72000000000 annual loss from…, blames BJP of…

Blaming the Pramod Sawant government's inaction, Patkar said 36 hours after the Dhargalim incident, both the excise department and the police had done nothing, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was quiet.

Jun 22, 2025 - 00:30
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Congress slams Goa government, alleges Rs 72000000000 annual loss from…, blames BJP of…

New Delhi: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee has launched a scathing attack in opposition to the deliver authorities for allowing open smuggling of liquor. The celebration has alleged that the smuggling is causing an estimated lack of Rs 7,200 crore per annum. Recount Congress president Amit Patkar alleged that in spite of every part ten automobiles carrying liquor worth Rs 2 crore every unfriendly the Patradevi border on each day foundation to reach states equivalent to Gujarat, the set aside alcohol is banned.

Patkar highlighted a recent incident the set aside a truck transporting liquor caught fire in Dhargalim and questioned the deliver of no task of the authorities.

“The truck is registered with the transport division, but the police and excise other folks utter they are able to’t identify its owner. How is this doubtless?” he asked. Patkar also condemned the excise division for no longer having mechanisms to trace or intercept illegally made and packaged liquor exiting Goa.

Blaming the Pramod Sawant authorities’s deliver of no task, Patkar acknowledged 36 hours after the Dhargalim incident, each the excise division and the police had done nothing, and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) used to be nonetheless.

“We quiz that the CM elaborate the deliver to utter us the set aside this liquor got here from and the set aside it went. Right here's a critical nationwide risk. By the following day, they should near out with this, and if they don’t, then we are in a position to gherao the commissioner of excise.”

Congress criticised local authorities for turning a blind perceive to liquor being smuggled out of Goa.

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