Jalandhar: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be campaiging in Punjab on Friday and will be visiting Jalandhar where he will hold talks with district level party leaders. This is Rahul's second visit to the state after the drubbing in Assembly Elections, earlier this year. Last week, at a rally here of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the students' wing of Congress party, Rahul had said, "what is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs."
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday charged the central Congress leaders with attempting to bring bad name to the state. "Instead of talking about problem of drugs among youths in Punjab, Rahul must have first pressed Congress government in Rajasthan to stop open availability of poppy husk and other drugs in that state," Punjab Chief Minister's political advisor Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal said.
Referring to Rahul's recent statement during a function at a university, Grewal asserted, "the Congress leader has misquoted a survey." "What the Punjab government had said in an affidavit it had filed in the court here, had been completely misquoted by Rahul," Chief Minister's another political advisor Harcharan Singh Bains said. Sukhbir had said that the Punjab government has no control over the flow of drugs into the state from Pakistan and that the problem was a national one.
With Additional Inputs from PTI
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