Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ashish Shelar on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government in Maharashtra over the reduction in the excise duty on imported foreign liquor in the state.
MLA Ashish Shelar said that the Maharashtra government is running on the agenda of pub, party and peg.
The Maharashtra government has reduced the excise duty by 50 per cent on imported foreign liquor in the state. The duty has been brought down from 300 to 150 per cent of the manufacturing cost, according to the state government.
A notification in this regard was issued on Thursday, PTI quoted a senior official as saying on Friday.
The Maharashtra government earns revenue of about Rs 100 crore from the sale of imported scotch annually. The revenue is expected to increase to Rs 250 crore as the sale is expected to go up from one lakh bottles to 2.5 lakh bottles, the official said.
