Police deploy water cannons to disperse Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) protestors throughout an agitation towards Punjab Authorities over the unlawful drug concern. (Picture: PTI)
Leaders and a number of other activists of the BJYM — the youth wing of the BJP have been detained by the police.
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The police on Monday lobbed tear gasoline shells and used water cannon to disperse BJYM activists making an attempt to put siege to the official residence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh right here over his alleged failure to curb drug menace within the state. Leaders and a number of other activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) — the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) have been detained by the police.
Protesters led by BJYM’s Punjab chief Bhanu Pratap Rana raised slogans towards the Congress-led dispensation and alleged that the chief minister had did not wipe out drug menace from Punjab. The Chandigarh Police had deployed police personnel and put up barricades to forestall the BJYM activists from heading in the direction of the chief minister’s residence.
However when the protesters tried to drive their means by means of the barricades, police used water cannon to disperse them at sector 17 right here. Police additionally used teargas shells to cease the protesters. Earlier, speaking to the media, Rana slammed the Amarinder Singh-led authorities in Punjab for not with the ability to curb the drug commerce within the state which has flourished below Congress rule.
He stated earlier than coming to energy in 2017, Amarinder Singh had promised to wipe out drug menace from the state. However he has utterly failed in doing so. In actual fact, drug commerce has flourished within the state, Rana claimed.
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