Jammu, Oct. 20 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday met the families of two men who, he said, paid with their lives for raising their voices against Punjab's drug trade, and used the visits to launch a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, vowing that a BJP government would end the "chitta" menace in the state.

In a series of posts on X, Shah said he met the family of the late Gulzar Singh at Toor Banjara village in Sangrur. He said the drug trade in Punjab has preyed on the youth and pushed the state's future into darkness, while leaving mothers, sisters and daughters with a wound that will never heal. Gulzar Singh, who fought against the drug trade, was put under so much pressure that he took his own life, Shah all...