Rescue state from scourge, Malik urges PM

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 19

Alleging apathy on the part of the state government, state BJP president and MP Shwait Malik on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help Punjab get rid of the drug menace.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Malik said, “Easy availability of drugs and malaise of addiction have assumed an alarming proportion that calls for emergency measures to check it.”

“I urge the Prime Minister and the Union Government to step in and save Punjab,” Malik said, adding that the youth are in peril and need to be rescued.

“The Congress had promised to provide education to the youth. Instead, contrabands are now directly delivered to the doorstep of people under its government,” he alleged.

He said the Capt Amarinder Singh government had failed to check the supply of drugs. He added, “It is an irony that the state which was once a food basket and inspired confidence among the people of the country has now been converted into a drug basket.”