BATHINDA: Taken aback during his thanksgiving tour of Mansa’s Joga village on Sunday when some youths laid drugs before him to prove the free availability of substance, Punjab health minister Dr Vijay Singla gave police a week to catch the peddlers.
The members of Joga’s youth welfare club took the courage of approaching the minister when he came to the village to thank his voters. Group leader Seera Singh put a small packet of ‘chitta’ (heroin) on the minister’s table and said: “We bought it today, just to show you the reality. We told police in the morning to go and catch the peddlers, who were selling drugs openly. We had high hopes from the new government that it will control this menace but the drugs remain available easily.”
