14.10.12

Rahul is right



Although the SAD-BJP combine is tearing its own government report on drugs, which was quoted by Rahul Gandhi while saying seven out of 10 youngsters have taken to drugs in Punjab, another state government document has emerged wherein the government admitted that “some 73.5% of the state’s youth between 16 and 35 years are confirmed drug addicts”.
The report is a part of the state disaster management plan for 2010-11, which cites “drug addiction” under the “hazard” category and describes the menace as “grievous”. Both revenue and disaster management departments come under cabinet minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia.
The plan quotes surveys done by Guru Nanak Dev University, which was quoted by Rahul Gandhi. “Punjab’s grievous drug problem was revealed recently in a report by Guru Nanak University in Punjab’s largest city, Amritsar…,” says the disaster management plan.
The plan also quotes Raj Pal Meena, the then head of the state’s anti-narcotics task force saying, “Punjab is teetering on the edge of an extraordinary human crisis, with an inordinately large number of youngsters hooked on to marijuana, opium and heroin, in addition to imbibing a range of prescriptive tablets.” A secretary of the department has been quoted in the plan: “Addicts used raw opium, smack, heroin, synthetic drugs like morphine and psychotropic substances like diazepam.”

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