Crackdown on Drug Menace in Uttar Pradesh: A Call for Urgent Action

Ajay Rai highlights the rampant drug sale in Uttar Pradesh, urging CM Yogi Adityanath to tackle the issue. Rai emphasizes youth and poor communities are most affected. A state-level meeting led by Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh discussed campaigns to eliminate hotspots as ongoing efforts show significant drug seizures and arrests.

Ajay Rai, Congress' Uttar Pradesh president, has urgently called upon Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to address the rampant open sale of drugs in the state, citing a grave impact on future generations.

Rai points to a growing trend of drug abuse across both urban and rural areas in Uttar Pradesh, condemning it as an administrative failure. He stresses that young people and economically disadvantaged groups are the prime victims of this issue.

In response, state-level initiatives led by Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh are actively working to identify and dismantle drug hotspots, contributing to a substantial crackdown on illegal narcotics activities throughout the region.

(With inputs from agencies.)