Vivid News 24: Amit Shah, the union home minister, promised on Wednesday that every drug dealer in India would be imprisoned within two years. The Center, he claimed, had mapped the country’s narcotics networks and would shortly take action.
The drug network across the states has been mapped. No matter how serious the crime, someone will end up behind bars within the next two years, he said Lok Sabha.
He said that since the BJP-led administration took office in 2014, the Center has been acting to tackle the nation’s drug problem. According to Shah, a small number of countries use the proceeds from the drug trade to finance terrorism in India.
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“I assure the House that the Modi government has zero tolerance for such acts and that we are determined to putting an end to them,” the official statement read. Drug use, according to him, weakens future generations. “It has destroyed tens of thousands of families and given rise to other social ills. The country’s economy is also destroyed by drugs, he claimed.
He added that since there is no longer any trade with Pakistan, drugs cannot cross the border. “But the issues still persist. Drones, smuggling, tunnels, ports, and airports are all used to bring drugs in “said Amit Shah.
Shah’s comments come a day after Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal, a Shiromani Akali Dal MP from Punjab, brought up the subject in Parliament to criticize the AAP leadership in the state.
Punjab is suffering as a result of the alcohol and drug epidemic, according to a motion in the Lok Sabha calling attention to the issue. he claimed that excessive drug usage was destroying Punjab’s youth and that the problem was now slowly encroaching on states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.
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