Patna: India has launched a major offensive against narcotics and will destroy drug cartels operating in the country by 2029, Union Home minister Amit Shah told NDTV in an interview.

The fight against drugs has been going on for the past four years with “very good” planning, he said. This is part of the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan launched in 2022. ADVERTISEMENT

“It has been going on from the district level to the state level, right up to the Indian government, and the plan has been very successful,” Shah said when asked if the government would fight drug cartels with the same intensity it has worked to eliminate Maoists.

“We have broken the record of arresting drug traffickers and drug dealers in the last three years,” he said.

“Now, the time has come to destroy the cartels and not jus

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