Alcohol ban might be part of BJP manifesto for Madhya Pradesh polls in 2018

Sources say that the party might initiate such a move by Gandhi Jayanti itself

State is abuzz with speculations if Madhya Pradesh is going Bihar and Gujarat way to put blanket ban on liquor from Coming Gandhi Jayanti. If insiders in the ruling party (BJP) are believed the party may put prohibition in election manifesto during Assembly elections for 2018.

Though state ministers, bureaucrats and even state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan are non-committal on ban on liquor, insiders in government told Business Standard, a team of experts had been sent to Gujarat and Bihar to study the prohibition model of those states.

"Practical difficulty is in implementing the law, particularly Bihar model. Also state mops