Chandigarh-Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday stated that the Punjab Authorities’s decisive and sustained crackdown towards narcotics is delivering concrete outcomes, dismantling drug networks that when operated with impunity. He stated that as Punjab strengthens enforcement and public participation towards medication, critical questions are arising in regards to the rising menace in Haryana underneath the Nayab Singh Saini authorities.
Recalling that medication proliferated throughout Punjab throughout the 2007–2017 SAD-BJP regime, Harpal Singh Cheema stated the same sample is now seen in Haryana. Referring to Haryana Police officer Sunil Sandhu, who’s going through motion after anti-drug operations, Harpal Singh Cheema requested what the BJP authorities in Haryana is attempting to guard. He additionally questioned whether or not the repeated visits of Nayab Singh Saini to Punjab point out an try to permit drug networks to regroup and search a return, whilst Haryana sinks deeper into the disaster.
Addressing a press convention on Tuesday, Cheema stated that because the Punjab Authorities intensifies its crackdown towards narcotics, drug traffickers are fleeing the state and establishing Haryana as their new base. “The decisive motion underneath the AAP authorities led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has tightened the grip on drug networks in Punjab, exposing how legal parts are actually relocating operations,” he added.
Cheema stated, “Because the noose tightens towards medication in Punjab, traffickers have made Haryana their new base. Our efforts are producing outcomes, and that’s the reason they’re being pressured to run.”
Recalling the previous, Harpal Singh Cheema stated, “Punjab has suffered the results of drug proliferation throughout the 2007–2017 SAD-BJP regime. It was throughout the BJP-Akali authorities that medication like heroin and ‘chitta’ unfold throughout Punjab. The folks of Punjab rejected them as a result of they witnessed the devastation first-hand,” he stated.
Cheema asserted that after the AAP authorities led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann assumed workplace in 2022, a decisive marketing campaign, ‘Yudh Nashean Virudh’, was launched. “A particular sub-committee was shaped, and in depth coordination conferences have been held throughout districts. Lately, over 1.5 lakh members of Village Defence Committees took an oath to assist the anti-drug motion, reflecting mass public participation,” he added.
The senior AAP Punjab chief asserted, “Immediately, the same scenario is rising in Haryana. Underneath authorities patronage, medication are spreading there, and cops who act towards narcotics are being overtly threatened.”
Referring to Haryana Police officer Sunil Sandhu, Cheema stated, “Sunil Sandhu is extensively recognized on social media for his commendable work. He has obtained a number of awards for his service. Lately, he seized narcotics and the video of the operation went viral. Ever since then, the BJP authorities has been troubling this police officer. This raises critical considerations about what the Haryana authorities is attempting to guard.”
He added that this sample shouldn’t be remoted. “Three thousand kilograms of heroin have been seized in BJP-ruled Gujarat. Such a large seizure raises critical questions in regards to the functioning of drug networks in BJP-governed states,” Harpal Singh Cheema stated.
Cheema additional questioned the repeated visits of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini to Punjab. “Nayab Singh Saini has been visiting Punjab incessantly. Is the BJP trying to revive the drug commerce in Punjab as soon as once more? The darkish part that Punjab endured underneath a BJP-backed authorities is now being witnessed in Haryana, which is steadily sinking deeper into the drug disaster,” he stated.
Reaffirming the Punjab Authorities’s agency resolve, Harpal Singh Cheema stated that Punjab is not going to permit drug mafias to regroup and can proceed its marketing campaign relentlessly. He added that officers appearing truthfully towards drug networks have to be protected and never penalised for doing their obligation.
