Chandigarh, July 30 — Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon launched a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government over the worsening drug menace, saying the government’s much-publicised war against drugs campaign had completely failed.
He said the tragic deaths of five young men due to drug overdose in Mohali’s Amb Sahib Colony within 18 days had exposed the alarming reality of the drug crisis in the state.
Expressing solidarity with the bereaved families, Dhillon said it was both heartbreaking and shameful that a mother had lost both her sons to drug addiction. In another case, a woman had been left alone to raise her two young children after her husband died due to drug abuse.
“These are not merely statistics but shattered families whose lives have been devastated because the government failed to fulfil its promises,” he said.
Dhillon added that AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal had promised the people of Punjab that drugs would be eradicated within three months, but the situation had worsened instead of improving.
“Punjab’s youth are losing their lives every single day,” he said.
He alleged that when drug-affected families and ordinary citizens raised their voices against traffickers, they were threatened, which clearly indicated that traffickers enjoyed administrative and political patronage.
The BJP leader further said public faith in the system had eroded to such an extent that families devastated by the drug menace were being forced to put up posters to sell their homes and stage protests.
He said the increasing number of drug-related deaths and the growing public anger were clear evidence of the complete failure of the AAP government’s governance.
Dhillon said the AAP government’s so-called promise of “change” had come at a high cost for the people of Punjab and had pushed the state back by several years.
He asserted that the drug menace could be eradicated only through strong leadership and a robust policy framework, not through publicity campaigns and advertisements.