Shimla, March 20 -- Chief minister (CM) Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu lashed out at the predecessor Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state accusing them for not taking timely action on the drug menace.

Drug menace in the state has not emerged solely over the last three years since the Congress came into power, the CM said during the Himachal assembly session, and added that it was during the tenure of previous BJP government that the drug menace spread to villages.

"When we came to power - Chitta was not just confined to the district bordering other states but had penetrated into every the remotest village of the state. Aap doshi hai (you are guilty)...Drugs reached every village, every district. Looking at the gravity we enacted...