CHANDIGARH, Oct. 19 -- Union home minister Amit Shah will visit Punjab on October 20 to meet the families of three people who recently died in incidents linked to opposition to the drug menace in Mansa, Sangrur and Gurdaspur, he announced on Sunday.

The announcement comes two days after the Union home ministry, through three separate letters, sought detailed reports from the Punjab government on the deaths, which have triggered a fresh political storm over drugs in the state.

This will be Shah's second visit to poll-bound Punjab in 20 days. He visited Jalandhar on September 30 and addressed a rally marking the culmination of the Bharatiya Janata Party's "Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra", which began on September 18. He had also visited Moga in ...