India, Oct. 3 -- Prohibition taking a toll on social and economic life in Bihar is likely to be an electoral issue as the State inches close to Assembly polls early next month.
Unemployment and animosity against residents of Bihar in some States has hooked the younger generations to mobile data and dry intoxicants or sookha nasha substances such as ganja, cocaine, heroin and other psychotropic substances.
Intoxicants are available even in remotest villages of underdeveloped districts such as Saharsa, Madhubani, Purnea to name a few.
Bihar enforced liquor ban in April 2016. However, branded alcohol is available everywhere in the State within 30 minutes. All brands are smuggled from neighbouring Nepal, Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and...