India, Oct. 16 -- The BJP national leadership on Friday took on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab over recent deaths of residents opposing drug peddling with Union home minister Amit Shah announcing that the ministry of home affairs will seek a formal explanation from chief minister Bhagwant Mann's administration, while party president Nitin Nabin attacked the AAP for "serious failure of governance".

Pointing to Thursday's killing of a Batala villager, Bikramjit Singh, 40, for confronting drug peddlers; the broad daylight murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa on October 13; and the suicide of a 50-year-old father in Dirba last month after facing harassment for publicly confronting finance minister Harpa...