{"id":257109,"date":"2025-03-12T01:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/mizoram-passes-bill-to-allow-local-wine-beer-production\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T01:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T01:28:19","slug":"mizoram-passes-bill-to-allow-local-wine-beer-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/mizoram-passes-bill-to-allow-local-wine-beer-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram passes bill to allow local wine, beer production"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2025 was passed in the state assembly to allow the manufacture and supply of wine and local beer made solely from locally produced agriculture and horticulture products. <\/p>\n

The bill also proposes to grant special permits to foreign dignitaries, tourists and domestic visitors for the possession and consumption of India-made foreign liquor. <\/p>\n

The current Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Act, which imposes a blanket ban on the sale, possession, manufacture and consumption of liquor, including wine and beer, was enacted by the previous Mizo National Front<\/a> (MNF) government in 2019. <\/p>\n

The Zoram People’s Movement<\/a> (ZPM) government had announced the introduction of the bill in the assembly but delayed it following objections from opposition parties including the MNF. <\/p>\n

Strongly opposing the bill, all ten MNF legislators, two BJP and the lone Congress MLA staged a noisy walk-out before the bill was passed by the house voice vote on Monday. <\/p>\n

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Chief Minister Lalduhoma said that the opposition MLAs accused the government of hearing the government\u2019s logic to introduce the amendment bill. \u201cIn some Muslim countries with strict bans of liquor, special permits are issued to hotels, foreign dignitaries and tourists,\u201d the Chief Minister told the house. \u201cI believe the people of Mizoram would support the bill for the interest of the state,\u201d he said. While liquor prohibition was the dominant issue of 2018 assembly elections, in 2023 drug-free Mizoram was the focus of the political parties while campaigning for the polls.<\/p>\n

Mizoram faces a huge problem of drug abuse and an influx from Myanmar has made cheap drugs available in the bordering state.<\/p>\n

In 2019, after its win, the Mizo National Front (MNF) government passed the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition Bill, 2019, prohibiting manufacture, sale and consumption of liquor. The MNF had promised prior to the assembly elections that it would prohibit liquor in the state. <\/p>\n

The MNF had promised to bring back the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act (MLTP), 1995, which was replaced in 2014 by Congress despite opposition from Church bodies and civil society groups. The Congress was voted out of power in 2018.<\/p>\n

Congress, which ruled the state for 10 years before the MNF, admitted lifting the prohibition hurt the sentiments of the Church which led to debacle of the party in the 2018 assembly polls.
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