Azad passing the buck on drug menace,says Dal Khalsa

“Azad has deliberately chosen to overlook the fact that the younger generation is a victim of manufactured drugs. Smack from Rajasthan,UP,MP and Karnataka reaches Punjab through the complicity of the police,administration and politicians. Bogus pharmaceutical companies in Delhi and Gurgaon manufacture fake drugs and they are sold in bulk in Punjab without bill and prescription,in clear violation of the Drug and Cosmetics Act,” Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh said on Friday.

Singh blamed the country’s security establishment for “failure to check the drug menace entering Punjab not only from across the border with Pakistan but also from neighboring states”.

“Dal Khalsa is of the view that just by passing the buck to the unfriendly neighbourer,the Indian leadership cannot escape its failure in ensuring strict observance of anti-drug abuse and trafficking laws,keeping the vigil at international as well as borders of all neighboring states of Punjab,” Singh added.

Azad had said that Pakistan first used AK-47s to create unrest in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir,and was now pushing drugs into India to destroy generations.

Singh said,“As per the statement given by former DGP (Prisons) and ex-intelligence chief Shashi Kant in the Punjab and Haryana High Court,there is alleged unholy nexus between the country’s top politicians,policemen,businessmen and the drug mafia.”

He cited the the World Drug Report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,which said that Punjab had emerged as a transit point for opium coming from Afghanistan.