Rahul Gandhi Leads Protest Against Drugs Menace In Punjab: Highlights

Jalandhar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi leads a protest in Punjab's Jalandhar today highlighting drug abuse and the "collapse" of law and order in the state.

Here are the highlights of his speech

• On one side there is the drugs problem on the other is there is law and order and unemployment
• Modi ji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi), Badal ji (Parkash Singh Badal) talk of ease of doing business. In Punjab the only business that is easy to do is of drugs
• The Punjab government does not let honest police officers work
• The Congress will remove the drug problem in month if it comes to power
• All that needs to be done is give the police a free hand. Free them from the clutches of the Akalis
• Once that is done, the business of drugs can be ended in four weeks
• Today they are banning the film Udta Punjab because they don't want to admit the truth, because it is profitable for them
• Only the Congress can rid Punjab of drugs. When we raise these issues, they make fun of the Congress
• They deny all problems of Punjab, but it is not true
• Till the youth of the state is liberated, the state cannot progress
• They made fun of me for going to meet farmers in Bhatta Parsaul, but farmers know who fought for them and who didn't
• The way we fought against the land ordinance, we will fight against the drugs problem
• We will bring Punjab back on tracks together, will bring back the industrialisation in Punjab, will bring back the pride of the farmers