Taking umbrage of the recent reports on the alarming menace of drugs and the deaths happening due to drug overdose in the State, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Sunam MLA Aman Arora on Thursday shot of a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh urging him to take an urgent call on the growing menace instead of passing on the buck to the Union Government.
Arora, in his letter to the Chief Minister, said that the drugs menace that had continued unabated under the nose of the State Government was worrying.
Referring to the “unending trail of deaths” triggered by drug overdose in the State, Arora alleged that the Chief Minister’s idea to writing to the Prime Minister, suggesting that the Union Government should come up with a national drug policy, and enforcement of de-addiction in the State to prevent the menace, was “nothing short of clever ruse to save its own skin”.
He termed Capt Amarinder’s letter to the Prime Minister invoking him to pitch in to take on the zombie of drugs to save the youth as “mere eyewash”.
“Though it is a joint responsibility of both the Union and the State Governments to join hands to tackle the issue of drug of this magnitude, the role of the Congress Government has been dismal as it has failed to deliver to stamp out the menace within a timeframe even as two and a half years had rolled by since its assuming power,” he said.
“The government needs to launch a door-to-door survey involving the health, police dispensation and civil society, besides preparing a comprehensive and micro level policy to stamp out the menace, once and for all,” he added.