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Lok Sabha elections 2024: No alcohol for votes in Gadchiroli
Updated On: 27 April, 2024 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Eshan Kalyanikar
Padma Shri awardee highlights ill effects of alcohol in general and during polls, says LS candidates asked to pledge against distribution
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Statistical data Dr Abhay Bang presented during his lecture at TISS
At a special lecture arranged by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Padma Shri award winner Dr Abhay Bang highlighted the ill effects of alcohol, stating that it has the capacity to distort elections. In this election, he collaborated with the people of Gadchiroli and took a pledge from all the Lok Sabha candidates to refrain from distributing alcohol for votes.
“Alcohol distorts elections. At the grassroots level, they are often driven by alcohol and money. On the eve of polling, men are given huge amounts of drinks so they act against their better judgment,” said Dr Bang, whose work focuses on healthcare in Gadchiroli, a tribal area. A baseline survey in the area in 2015-16 showed 1,58,000 men to be alcohol consumers with a total out-of-pocket expenditure of Rs 80 crore. Dr Bang has been conducting de-addiction camps in Gadchiroli for the last couple of years in collaboration with the state government, treating 11,707 addicts at 891 such camps. “There has been community involvement at large.
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