Four die of drug addiction: Bajwa hits out at Mann administration for its abject incompetence

Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-

The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Thursday launched a scathing and unsparing attack on Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemning his government’s abject and repeated failure to address, let alone eradicate, the drug menace devastating Punjab.

In a harrowing incident that lays bare the government’s incompetence, four young men in their mid-twenties died within just 48 hours in Lakho ke Behram village along the Ferozepur-Fazilka road. The villagers squarely blamed prolonged drug addiction—a crisis exacerbated by the administration’s chronic neglect. CM Mann’s grandstanding promises to make Punjab a drug-free state have once again been exposed as empty rhetoric,” Bajwa lambasted.

Citing the recently released