CHANDIGARH, MAY 25 — BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh has demanded the immediate withdrawal of a government directive forcing public school teachers to conduct field surveys tracking drug addiction across Punjab. The senior political leader stated that the task actively compromises the quality of classroom education while failing to address the root causes of the state’s narcotics problem.
According to Chugh, the door-to-door narcotics census represents a serious misallocation of state resources. He argued that specialized law enforcement branches are being shielded from their core duties while educators are forced into potentially hazardous field assignments during peak summer conditions.
“A survey related to drugs, addiction and narcotics should have been conducted by Punjab Police, STF and law enforcement agencies,” Chugh noted. “But instead of dismantling drug networks, Punjab Police today appears more occupied in managing the security and political movement of Arvind Kejriwal and his coterie.”
The BJP national general secretary questioned the logic of the administration’s recent global training initiatives for educators, asking sarcastically if the chief minister sent teachers to foreign countries just to learn how to catalog drug addicts. Chugh affirmed that the state needs strict anti-drug enforcement and structural accountability rather than empty public relations exercises.
He declared that the policy functions as a distraction from the government’s inability to break local drug syndicates. Chugh maintained that the schooling system is already struggling under the weight of existing non-teaching assignments, such as election duties and the national census, and cannot absorb additional investigative responsibilities.
