AAP has no roadmap to rid Pb of drugs: Bajwa

Chandigarh: Leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa has slammed AAP-led Punjab govt, accusing it of having an “apathetic” approach to curbing the growing drug menace in the state.
Bajwa stated that Bhaloor village in the Baghapurana assembly segment witnessed two drug overdose deaths in the past week. In addition, some other youths have also died of drug overdose in the past.However, the AAP govt has yet to chalk out a strategy to deal with drug abuse.
“While campaigning for the 2022 Assembly elections, AAP national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had vowed that Punjab would be made drug-free within three months if the party formed the govt in the state. In his Independence Day speech in 2023, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann claimed that the AAP govt would make the state drug-free by the next Independence Day. In April 2024, AAP cabinet minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal said that the state’s drug problem would be erased by the end of this year,” Bajwa said, adding that the AAP govt has no roadmap to curb the spiraling drug menace in the state, the reason why the CM and cabinet ministers have come up with new deadlines now and then. This is one of the reasons that the people of Punjab have shown the door to AAP in the Lok Sabha elections, he said.