Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann set for Bhavnagar, Bharuch campaign tour for AAP on April 16-17
This move comes as the AAP and Congress navigate a recent seat-sharing agreement within the INDIA bloc.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday said that on the directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court, the state government will soon initiate action against those named in the report pertaining to drug trade in the state and those who have ruined youth of Punjab through drugs won’t be spared.
In a statement today, the CM said that the drug trade which had flourished during the previous Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) and Congress regimes had ruined the future generations of the state.
He said the affluent leaders of both these parties had patronised this illegal trade in connivance of bureaucrats and drug smugglers to mint money illegally. Mann said the perpetrators of this heinous crime will not be spared at any cost and they will be put behind the bars.
The CM said the probe report on this issue had been hanging in fire since long as none of the previous government was sincere to take action against those forces which had ruined the future of Punjab.
Mann, however, said now when he had received the report in three packets of reports from High Court, severest of severe action will be taken against the forces inimical to state and its youth.
He said exemplary action will be taken against those people whose hands are drenched with the blood of countless youth who fell prey to drug menace.
An official spokesperson said “these reports were pending for five years and the previous Congress government had not taken any action on the same but after assuming the charge of the office, the Chief Minister had given consent to the High Court on 15 February.”
Mann had given his consent to bring into the public domain all sealed reports submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that establish a nexus between police officers and drug traffickers.
“These reports were submitted by a special investigating team, which enquired into the matter deeply. This action had paved the way for stern action against the strong nexus of officers-politicians and drug peddlers who have been involved in this trade since long,” the CM said.
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