Bajwa stated that drug overdose deaths among Punjabi youth have become the new normal, and the recent incident has exposed the AAP government’s insincerity in its promise to make Punjab drug-free.”DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav has set a May 31 deadline for eradicating the drug menace from the state. Earlier, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had also set deadlines in vain. Would the AAP government bother to let the Punjabis know what happened to those deadlines?” Bajwa asked.”The Excise Minister Harpal Cheema must resign immediately. Anything less would be an insult to the lives lost,’’ he voiced. He demanded a judicial inquiry monitored by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring urged the government to provide adequate compensation to the dependents, and at the same time he demanded fixing responsibility over the deaths, which, he remarked, were like cold-blooded murders of unsuspecting people.Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring urged the government to provide adequate compensation to the victims’ families and demanded accountability, calling the deaths cold-blooded murders of unsuspecting people.He questioned the government’s claims of eradicating drugs in Punjab by May 31. “Not that we believed you could do that, but at least we did not expect that besides the drug over dose, people would also die from spurious liquor produced under the nose of your government,’’ he stated.
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