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Will go on hunger strike: Navjot Singh Sidhu's threat to Punjab govt over drug Menace
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 11/26/2021 11:42:05 AM
New Delhi, Nov 25 Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu says he will go on a hunger strike if the state government does not make the reports on the drug menace & the sacrilege incident public. Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday demanded that a special task force's report on the drug menace should be made public and a time-bound probe be initiated to catch the "big fish responsible for narco-terrorism". He pointed out that the Congress had promised people in 2017 that it would "break the backbone of drugs mafia" in the state within four weeks. "But according to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) Reports from 2017 to 2020, Punjab has continuously retained the top position in crime rate in NDPS for the last four consecutive years,” said Sidhu in a series of tweets. "HC supplied a copy of the STF report on drugs to the government. But instead of proceeding as per law, we are sitting on the STF report since February 2018. We have even failed to extradite the other accused in this multi-crore drugs case. The solution is to catch and punish the big fish," he said. The cricketer-turnedpolitician said, according to the law, the government has all the powers “to proceed on the basis of the STF report". "Hence, it (STF report) should be immediately made public, an FIR should be registered on its basis and a timebound investigation should be initiated to catch the big fishes responsible for narco-terrorism," he said in another tweet. Sidhu has been demanding that the Congress government in Punjab make the STF report on drugs public.