Governor received negative reports regarding rampant availability and abuse of drugs in Punjab
Punjab chief minister bhagwant mann, took a subtle dig at the threats made by governor Banwarilal Purohit on the imposition of President’s rule in the state. Replying to the letter sent by Purohit, the cm said that 3.5 crore Punjabis knew how to fight back when ‘suppressed’.Mann claimed that he had already replied to nine out of 16 questions raised by the governor and the remaining questions were being followed up.Purohit had threatened action under section 365 of the constitution against Mann alleging a “breaking down of law and order situation in Punjab" and asked him to immediately send a report concerning the action taken by the cm on the rampant drug trade issue.The chief minister presented the data at a conference and said that the state had taken big action on the fronts of catching the drug trades and also in maintaining the law and order situation in the state. Mann said he was not replying as a cm but as a common punjabi and on behalf of the 3.5 crore Punjabis.“It is common knowledge that they are available in chemist shops. A new trend is observed that they are being sold in government-run liquor shops. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and chandigarh Police recently sealed 66 liquor shops in ludhiana which were selling drugs," the governor said. leader of Opposition in the punjab Legislative Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa also posted on X that deaths due to drug overdose in punjab have become the new normal under the aam aadmi party government. He said that the people of punjab are fed up with the “blatant lies" of punjab cm bhagwant mann about ending the drug menace.