{"id":46078,"date":"2025-07-15T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=46078"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:26:38","slug":"previous-governments-sheltered-drug-peddlers-fueled-drug-menace-in-punjab-tarunpreet-singh-sond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/breaking\/previous-governments-sheltered-drug-peddlers-fueled-drug-menace-in-punjab-tarunpreet-singh-sond\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Governments Sheltered Drug Peddlers, Fueled Drug Menace in Punjab: Tarunpreet Singh Sond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Previous Governments Sheltered Drug Peddlers, Fueled Drug Menace in Punjab: Tarunpreet Singh Sond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2018Yudh Nashiyan Virudh\u2019 campaign has broken the drug nexus and is saving Punjab\u2019s youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Over 4,500 villages have declared themselves drug-free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>More than 3,000 sports grounds to be dedicated to public in next 6 months to safeguard youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Awareness camps to be extended to urban wards as well<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chandigarh, July 15:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punjab Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond today launched a scathing attack on previous governments during a special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, accusing them of promoting drug abuse and protecting drug traffickers in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participating in a discussion on the issue of drugs, Sond alleged that both the Akali-BJP alliance and the Congress governments had actively supported drug peddlers, resulting in widespread addiction among the state&#8217;s youth. He read out excerpts from media reports highlighting the busting of an illicit liquor factory in Khanna and the arrest of a notorious drug dealer, Gurdeep Rano, from the Payal constituency, presenting them as concrete evidence of past governments\u2019 complicity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBefore 2007, synthetic drugs were unheard of in Punjab. But thereafter, substances like \u2018chitta\u2019 infiltrated and devastated an entire generation,\u201d Sond remarked. \u201cOne former Chief Minister even took a false oath to eliminate drugs but did absolutely nothing to act on it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sond said that under Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann\u2019s leadership, the government has launched a full-scale \u2018Yudh Nashiyan Virudh\u2019 which is yielding positive results. \u201cWe have dismantled the networks of drug traffickers, many of whom are now fleeing the state,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He informed the House that under this campaign, anti-drug camps have been organized in nearly 7,000 villages, where thousands have taken pledges to quit drugs. Over 4,500 villages have already declared themselves drug-free, and the campaign will now expand into urban wards with awareness camps to reach every corner of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To safeguard the future of the youth and keep them engaged in healthy activities, Sond announced that the government will dedicate over 3,000 new sports grounds to the public within the next six months. \u201cEach of Punjab\u2019s 117 assembly constituencies will have a model sports complex to ensure boys and girls have access to safe recreational spaces,\u201d he said. \u201cThese grounds will also be open for citizens for morning and evening walks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sond concluded by reaffirming the government\u2019s commitment to transforming the state into a \u2018Rangla Punjab\u2019, stating that all MLAs, ministers, and volunteers of the Mann government and AAP are working tirelessly, and the day is not far when Punjab will be completely drugs free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Governments Sheltered Drug Peddlers, Fueled Drug Menace in Punjab: Tarunpreet Singh Sond \u00a0 \u2018Yudh Nashiyan Virudh\u2019 campaign has broken the drug nexus and is saving Punjab\u2019s youth \u00a0 Over 4,500 villages have declared themselves drug-free \u00a0 More than 3,000 sports grounds to be dedicated to public in next 6 months to safeguard youth \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2328,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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