Don’t legalise drugs, warns Amarinder
Saturday, 25/04/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140426/punjab.htm#9
Amritsar : Former Chief Minister and Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for suggesting that the drug trade in the state should be legalised.
Warning that he would not allow “this government to write the death warrant of an entire generation,” he said the CM’s stand vindicated the charges that the Badals were patronising drug peddlers. He alleged that the Badals wanted to legalise the drug trade to make easy money.
Talking to mediapersons here today, Amarinder said: “It is shameful for a Chief Minister to say that he cannot stop drug trafficking and, hence, the trade should be legalised and that licensed vends must be allowed .”
The former Chief Minister warned that cheap synthetic drugs being manufactured in Punjab would find their way to these licensed vends and “destroy” the youth.
