India, May 17 -- At the RN Kao Memorial lecture last Friday, home minister Amit Shah spelled out his next mission before a galaxy of foreign diplomats, law enforcement chiefs and intelligence heads and virtually declared the war on drugs and precursors after successfully eradicating Left wing extremism from India.

While Shah was speaking at Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) headquarters, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) was in the midst of an operation to seize 222.7 kilograms of Captagon, the so-called jihadi drug, worth Rs. 200 crore. Since he focused his entire speech on eradication of narco-trafficking and narco-terror, the home minister clearly defined his agenda for the coming years.

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