Will 'wipe out' drug menace in 4 weeks: Amarinder Singh

March 11, 2017 20:04

Congress leader Amarinder Singh promised to wipe out the drug menace from the state in four weeks after his party forms a government in the state.

Singh, who is likely to become the chief minister as the Congress got absolute majority, also said in the first cabinet meeting 100 key decisions would be taken.

Addressing a crowded press conference in Chandigarh, Singh, who turned 75 today, reiterated his poll promise of tackling drug menace saying it will be among his immediate priorities.

He said that every single person found guilty of destroying the lives of tens of thousands of youth would be brought to book.

The use of drugs, by the youths, was a major issue in the Punjab elections.

Singh said that he would also get probed the sacrilege incidents that had happened in parts of the state recently.

"A meeting of the Punjab Congress legislature party has been called tomorrow," Singh, who was the chief minister of the state during 2007-2012, told reporters.

He hit out at the SAD, saying it had brought the "state on its knees". He also took a swipe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he was like a "summer storm which came and has gone."

"The AAP bubble has burst with the outright rejection by the Punjab voters," he said, adding that the alleged links of AAP with extremist had also worked against the party.

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