Madhya Pradesh polls: Booze and voter awareness make unhealthy cocktail

Over-enthusiastic liquor dealers ended up placing the stickers on labels carrying the statutory warning about the harmful effects of liquor

It is common to find candidates doling out liquor and other freebies to influence voters during an election. But in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the district administration of Jhabua decided to put liquor bottles to good use. It went ahead and put stickers that said one mustn't waste one's vote on two lakh liquor bottles. The stickers, in the local dialect, read, “Vote jarur nakhwa nu, hamu sankalp karayi se” (we have to vote, we have taken an oath). But things went wrong when over-enthusiastic liquor dealers ended up placing the stickers on labels carrying the statutory warning about the harmful