India, Oct. 20 -- With Union home minister Amit Shah visiting Punjab to meet the family members of those who died in incidents linked to the drug menace in Punjab, AAP leader and cabinet minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led central government. He questioned their failure to act against pharmaceutical drug manufacturers operating in BJP and Congress-ruled states despite repeated appeals from Punjab.

Addressing a press conference, Cheema claimed that the Punjab government was taking stringent action against drug traffickers, but the Centre continued to ignore the sources supplying synthetic and pharmaceutical drugs to the state. He asserted that the Bhagwant Mann government would pursue the fight a...