Criticising the ruling Badal family for turning blind eye towards the menace of drug-abuse in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said that the recent two deaths of youth due to drugs in ludhiana and Pathankot should be an eye-opener to the “Blind “Akalis.
It is a shame on the Akalis that amidst their denial of having any menace of drug-abuse in the State, two of the youth have died on Friday due to over-dose of drugs, Bhagwant Mann stated.
If Badals would have taken the appropriate steps to curb the menace at an appropriate time, lives of hundreds of youth could have been saved, but unfortunately Akalis preferred to save ‘drug-lords’ only, leaving the youth for slow-death under the grip of drug dragon, Mann said.
It is pertinent to mention here that a 21-year-old Gujjar youth from Mallewal village in Balachaur died of drug overdose. The deceased, Manjinder, was a matriculate and had reportedly quit drugs about a year back and was working as a mechanic in ludhiana.
In another incident at Pathankot, a teen-aged boy identified as Neeshu also died at Pathankot, that too due to overdose of drug.