Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma on Sunday said the party is going to launch a campaign against the drug menace in the state in March.
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To make the youth and the people of the state aware of the scourge of drugs, the campaign will be rolled out at political and social levels to make Punjab a drug-free state, he added.
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Under this campaign, a yatra will be taken out in March, which will continue till August, and visit every Lok Sabha constituency in Punjab for 18 days, Sharma said.
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The BJP leader was speaking during the party's two-day state executive meeting which began here.
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BJP national vice-president Saudan Singh, the party's Punjab in-charge, and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, co-in-charge of state unit Narinder Singh Raina were present at the meeting.
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Sharma further said BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Punjab next month.
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He exhorted BJP workers to take pro-people schemes of the central government to every rural household.
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Sharma further said that the BJP will contest all the upcoming civic elections on its own in the state.