Lok Sabha Election 2024: Liquor shops to remain closed in Noida, Greater Noida on polling day

The bid volition beryllium strictly enforced successful Gautam Buddh Nagar, said District Excise Officer Subodh Kumar Srivastava, adding that violators volition look ineligible action, including punishment oregon jail, successful compliance with the rules.

Speaking to PTI, Srivastava said, “As per rules, liquor outlets should adjacent down 48 hours up of the election. Here, each authorised liquor outlets volition stay closed from 6 p.m. connected Wednesday (April 24) to 6 pm, oregon extremity of voting time, connected Friday (April 26)."

"Excise officials are continuously monitoring the income of liquor successful Noida and Greater Noida successful presumption of the elections and inspecting each complaints of irregularities to guarantee timely action," the serviceman said.

He added that during the play of closure, immoderate idiosyncratic recovered selling liquor illegally would look strict ineligible enactment including punishment oregon jailhouse word arsenic per Excise laws. 

In Uttar Pradesh, 8 Lok Sabha constituencies volition spell to polls successful the 2nd signifier of ongoing wide elections connected April 26. These seats are: Amroha, Meerut, Mathura, Baghpat, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Bulandshahar.

The Bahujan Samaj Party, the Opposition INDIA alliance, and the ruling NDA bloc are expected to prosecute successful a triangular conflict connected Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, and Gautam Buddh Nagar seats. 

On the different hand, Mathura and Ghaziabad volition spot a full-fledged contention betwixt the BJP and the Congress. In Aligarh and Bulandshahar, the BJP volition instrumentality connected the Samajwadi Party, which is led by Akhilesh Yadav.

(With PTI inputs)

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Published: 24 Apr 2024, 03:01 PM IST