Srinagar, March 4 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Prohibition of Alcohol Bill, 2025, seeking to ban the sale of liquor sale in the Union Territory is expected to generate heat in the budget session of the assembly that got off to a smooth start on Monday.

Cutting across party lines, three legislators, Fayaz Mir of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Ahsan Pardesi of the National Conference and Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) representative Sheikh Khursheed Ahmad, moved the private members' bills separately in the run-up to the session. The PDP turned the demand into a public issue by launching a signature campaign, spearheaded by party leader Iltija Mufti. Former CM Mehbooba Mufti has written to the Congress and even requested legislators of opposit...