To seek a probe by the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) into the recently busted multi-crore drug racket, Congress MPs from Punjab will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Reiterating his allegation that SAD leaders and some police officers were directly involved in the racket, the State party chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday said that they were going to seek Centre’s intervention in the matter.
“All MPs from Punjab would meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand NCB probe into the synthetic drug racket in Punjab. SAD leaders and some police officers are directly involved in drug smuggling and patronised the drug lord Jagdish Bhola and his associates Maninder Singh Bittu Aulakh and Jagjit Singh Chahal arrested by police,” said Bajwa. lashing at the SAD-BJP Government for ignoring border areas in matter of development, Bajwa said that the unemployment and poverty was in rise in the border districts, and primary education and health system had collapsed.
He claimed that he was trying hard to bring a special package for setting up industry in the border districts but SAD-BJP Government was working against the interests of border residents. He said that SAD-BJP Government had not supported his move. leader of Congress legislative Party Sunil Jakhar said that SAD-BJP Government had failed on all fronts, and no new investment was coming to Punjab.