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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Monday took on the Akali Dal-BJP mix for patronizing drug enterprise within the state whereas main a protest towards the menace in Jalandhar. He mentioned the Punjab Police was succesful coping with the drug downside however its arms had been tied by the Punjab authorities.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, he mentioned: “Modiji and Badalji speak about ease of doing enterprise.
Punjab has just one enterprise the place there’s ease and that’s medication enterprise. That enterprise is protected by Akali Dal.”
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The Congress’s dharna was additionally to protest the deteriorating legislation and order state of affairs in Punjab. Rahul, who arrived on the venue one hour late, didn’t sit within the enclosure meant for him, however sat with Congress employees on the bottom. As occasion employees began taking selfies with him, Captain Amarinder Singh too needed to come and be part of Rahul.
“Captain (Amarinder Singh) had said this earlier too…if one wants to remove drugs from Punjab, then one needs to give Punjab Police a free hand…If Punjab Police can curb terrorism, why can’t it eradicate drugs. There are good police officers here who want to curb this menace, but they are not given key posts…the Congress will do it,” mentioned Rahul.
Attacking Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal for mocking him for saying that 70 per cent of Punjab’s youth was caught within the drug lure, Rahul mentioned: “Sukhbir Badal had mocked me and said that I was defaming Punjab….They mocked me because they had to continue their drug business here…Punjab cannot go ahead till the time its youth, which is chained to drugs, is freed from this problem; and it can be done only when people will admit it and support the Congress in its fight against drugs.” He added that the ruling occasion needed Udta Punjab banned in Punjab because it didn’t need to admit the truth.
Rahul promised that the Congress will carry a stringent legislation to curb drug menace, including that properties acquired by utilizing drug cash might be forfeited to lift funds for the welfare of Punjab’s youth.
“You will have to put right officers on the job and remove inefficient ones and this work is not being done by Akali Dal. When you do this job and you end the nexus of police and Akali Dal, then the drugs problem will be addressed in one month…Those who have made money, big houses and robbed the youth of their money from this drugs trade, we will get that money back (from them) and return it to you. We will bring a law and deploy the police in the right manner to stop the menace,” mentioned the Congress vice-president.
Apart from the problem of medicine, PPCC chief Captain Amarinder Singh raised legislation and order issues within the state, the problem of farm misery and the promoting of presidency land by the SAD-BJP authorities. He additionally mocked the Aam Aadmi Party as “topiwale”, and requested individuals to watch out for them.
Many audio system on the occasion took on Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia on the medication subject, whereas the Badals had been attacked for controlling land, sand, bus, and cable “mafia” in Punjab. All senior leaders of the Punjab Congress had been current on the venue that noticed occasion employees flip up in giant numbers.
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