Liquor shop owner showers flower petals on customers, calls them 'country's economy'

After liquor shops were allowed to reopen across nation amid lockdown until May 17, an owner of alcohol shop has been recorded showering its visitors with flower petals in Delhi. In short clip that has gone viral, liquor shop owner at Chander Nagar can be heard saying “you are ecomy of our country” and expresses gratitude by showering bright orange coloured petals. video has garnered over 181k views with thousands of people lauding man’s way of ackwledging “ecomy warriors”.

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‘Heroes of country’

internet users sided with liquor shop owner and agreed that with spiralling ecomy, people who are out to buy alcohol after over 40 days are contributing to nation. One of Twitter users even called customers as “heroes of country”. Many shared memes deting people waiting in huge queues as ‘warriors’. Some also ted that  Delhi government has anunced a 70 per cent “Special Corona fee” to be imposed on Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of alcohol. 

Delhi has reportedly allowed at least 150 state-run alcohol shops outside containment zones of coronavirus. India has been under lockdown since March 25 and Central government anunced an extension until May 17. India has also colour coded districts in red, orange and green zones based on severity of COVID-19 spre. se zones allotted by Centre would also facilitate phase-lifting of restrictions.

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(With ANI inputs)