India, Oct. 16 -- Faced with sharp criticism following the murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa on October 13, the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab on Friday launched a targeted 60-day plan to dismantle drug networks, focusing primarily on 435 identified hotspots.

Chief minister Bhagwant Mann chaired a high-level review of the state's Yudh Nashean Virudh (War Against Drugs) campaign at the Punjab Police Academy in Phillaur, bringing together deputy commissioners, senior superintendents of police, sub divisional magistrates (SDMs), and deputy superintendents of police (DSPs).

Director general of police Gaurav Yadav said that over the next two months, the state's strategy will shift from an arrest-centric approa...