Delhi CM flays AAP government in Punjab for failing to curb drug menace

Since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had assumed power in Punjab in 2022, it had been issuing new deadlines to eradicate the drug menace from the State, but had completely failed to keep its word and could not realistically be expected to eradicate drugs at all, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Saturday (September 19, 2026), hitting out at the ruling AAP government in Punjab.

“When the AAP came to power in Punjab, they promised to eliminate drugs from the State within three months. The deadline was extended, first by three months and then by four months, and has now been extended six times. A government that keeps giving new deadlines cannot be expected to eradicate drugs,” Ms. Gupta said. She was addressing a public gathering at Fatehgarh Sahib, ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Punjab unit flagging off the second ‘Nasha Mukt (drug free) Punjab Yatra’.