Chandigarh, Oct 15 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will hold a meeting with senior police officers and district administration officials on October 16 to review his government’s anti-drug drive, ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’, Punjab AAP media in-charge Baltej Pannu said on Thursday.
The high-level meeting in Phillaur will be attended by all senior superintendents of police (SSP), deputy commissioners, deputy superintendents of police (DSP) and sub-divisional magistrates (SDM).
Pannu said the meeting will review the campaign’s progress, strengthen coordination between police and administration, and establish a decisive future course of action against drugs.
While meetings of SSPs have taken place at the district level in the past, this is the first time that officials from all these ranks across every district are coming together for a joint meeting, he said.
“For approximately the past one and a half years, the Punjab government has been fighting the battle against drugs on a war footing. This campaign will now be intensified further, with a sharper focus on results and effective action against drug networks,” Pannu said.
The meeting comes amid criticism by opposition parties over the murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa.
Known for raising his voice against drug abuse and the illegal sale of addictive substances at chemist shops, Jhota was shot dead in broad daylight inside a medical store on Tuesday.
Ashwani Kumar, the store owner who shot Jhota after the activist questioned him over selling addictive drugs to an elderly man, was taken into custody from Salasar in Rajasthan.
(PTI News)
