Pooja, on behalf of the elders of her village, writes letters to political parties to give them “one final chance” to promise a ban on alcohol in the state of Karnataka in India.
The Anti-Liquor Movement In Karnataka
"We’d also like to choose NOTA but will that help our agitation? Won’t some candidate win based on the votes that come in?"—Saraswathi Rajiv
NOTA, a Symbolic Agitation
The women of Kottekallu say that they have had enough and that they too will choose NOTA in the upcoming elections. While Yenkamma (L) had to leave her children with her parents to bring them up without having an alcoholic father around, Huchhamma wants to tell the government to keep their schemes and offers to themselves, and just grant them the liquor ban.