Drugs menace not an issue in Delhi polls: Badal

Muktsar (Pb):Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday said that the drug menace was hardly an issue in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls and described it as a “malicious propaganda” unleashed by the opposition to “defame Punjabis and tarnish the state’s image”.
“Drug problem in the state was neither an issue in Punjab nor in Delhi, but it is being blown out of proportion by the oppo-sition under a deep rooted conspiracy to tarnish the image of hard working Punjabis,” he said after his ‘Sangat Darshan’ progra-mme in this district.
The state government has taken unprecedented steps to check the supply of drugs from across the border and for making Punjab a drug-free state, he said.
On Shiromani Akali Dal’s strategy for contesting the Delhi polls, he said the party president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was camping in the national capital to formulate the plan for contesting these polls.
“The party would be contesting these polls as per the programme given by the party leadership,” he said.(PTI)