A Kerala panchayat president's tale of redemption from alcoholism
The Hindu
George E. P., president of Ramamangalam panchayat in Ernakulam, will be sharing his experience of beating alcohol addiction as part of campaign to be launched by Ernakulam Social Justice Department on the International Day Against Drug Abuse on June 26
George E. P., president of Ramamangalam panchayat in Ernakulam district of Kerala, claims that he has not touched a liquor bottle in the last 13 years. In the five years prior to that, he says he never put down one. By his own admission, he had drunk for a lifetime in those five years.
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