NDA government committed to curbing substance abuse with iron hand, says Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Anitha

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During the YSRCP term, wherever ganja was seized successful  the country, their origins were traced to Andhra Pradesh, alleges Home Minister V. Anitha.

During the YSRCP term, wherever ganja was seized successful the country, their origins were traced to Andhra Pradesh, alleges Home Minister V. Anitha. | Photo Credit: File Photo

Andhra Pradesh ​Home Minister V. Anitha has reiterated that the NDA authorities is committed to curbing the menace of drugs and ganja successful the Statem too focussing connected spreading consciousness astir the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act among the youth.

Blaming the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) authorities (2019-24) for the proliferation of specified amerciable businesses, Ms. Anitha says that it is evident from the alleged engagement of a fewer its leaders successful them.

Addressing the media astatine the TDP office, adjacent Mangalagiri, connected Thursday, Ms. Anitha said a YSRCP pupil helping person from Visakhapatnam territory was caught by the EAGLE squad for allegedly moving a cause racket that targeted engineering students.

“Is YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy unaware of it,” she wondered, and alleged that the erstwhile Chief Minister was holding nationalist meetings with the enactment leaders who were turning students into cause addicts nether the guise of pupil unions.

A adjacent subordinate of Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy was complicit successful the amerciable drugs business, but helium was not suspended from the YSRCP, she alleged. “During the YSRCP term, wherever ganja was seized successful the country, their origins were traced to Andhra Pradesh,” Ms. Anitha observed.

In crisp opposition to the YSRCP Government’s “gross negligence” successful dealing with the drugs and ganja businesses, the TDP-led conjugation authorities constituted a sub-committee comprising six Ministers and acceptable up the Elite Anti-Narcotics Group for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) to firmly woody with the racketeers.

“Parents should beryllium wary of the anti-social elements that lure their children into vicious traps,” the Home Minister cautioned.

Published - November 06, 2025 08:45 p.m. IST

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