Chandigarh, June 16 — Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar has urged Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to order a probe into the state’s narcotics network and its financial trail, supervised by the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. In a letter to the chief minister, Jakhar pressed for an impartial investigation that tracks the flow of drug money and exposes those shielding or benefiting from the trade.
“Drug cartels in Punjab do not survive in isolation. There is always a patron, and it’s time we identified who stands behind them,” Jakhar wrote.
The BJP leader raised concerns over what he described as a visible transformation in the lifestyles of certain political figures over recent years. “MLAs who once rode bicycles now own luxury vehicles worth crores. Farmhouses sprawled across acres have become common. These changes cannot be brushed aside as coincidence,” he noted.
Jakhar asserted that the drug economy in Punjab, with recoveries worth thousands of crores in recent years, points to deep-rooted corruption and complicity. He called on the government to go beyond mid-level arrests and trace the money to its final recipients — regardless of political affiliation or administrative position.
“This state cannot afford to let the big fish escape. Until the entire money trail is exposed and end beneficiaries held accountable, the state’s anti-drug campaign is little more than eyewash,” he wrote.
The letter places pressure on the Aam Aadmi Party-led government to demonstrate its seriousness in tackling the drug menace — a longstanding issue in Punjab politics and public discourse.
