Deputy chief minister and minister for excise, K Narayana Swamy, tabled the draft liquor bill in the assembly on Tuesday. The bill, Andhra Pradesh (Regulation of trade in Indian Made Foreign Liquor, Foreign Liquor (Amendment) Act 2019, amends section 6 of the 1993 Act, authorises the government to have ‘exclusive privilege of selling (liquor) by shop’ in the state and “no other person shall be entitled to any privilege of selling by shop”.
