Rahul Gandhi launches scathing attack on PM Modi over Gujarat drug hauls: ‘Ease of doing drug business?’

• Shubham
• 23 August, 2022

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By: Shubham Ghosh

Former Indian Congress president leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday (22) attacked prime minister Narendra Modi over multiple drug hauls from the western state of Gujarat and asked for how long he would be silent on the matter.

His attack came days after the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police busted a mephedrone manufacturing unit in Gujarat and seized drugs worth Rs 1,026 crore (£109 million).

“‘Ease of doing drug business’ in Gujarat? Mr Prime Minister, answer these questions. Drugs worth thousands of crores are reaching Gujarat. Who is spreading this poison in the holy land of Gandhi-Patel,” Gandhi, a parliamentarian from the southern state of Kerala, said in a tweet in Hindi.

गुजरात में ‘Ease of doing Drug business’? प्रधानमंत्री जी, इन सवालों के जवाब दीजिए।

1. गुजरात में हज़ारों करोड़ की ड्रग्स पहुंच रही है, गांधी-पटेल की पावन भूमि पर ये ज़हर कौन फैला रहा है?

2. बार-बार ड्रग्स बरामद होने के बावजूद, पोर्ट के मालिक से अब तक कोई पूछताछ क्यों नहीं हुई?

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 22, 2022

Posing a series of questions, he asked why the port owner had not been questioned so far despite drugs being recovered time and again.

3. गुजरात में ड्रग कार्टेल चला रहे ‘Narcos’ को NCB एवं अन्य सरकारी एजेंसियां अब तक क्यों नही पकड़ पायीं?

4. केंद्र और गुजरात की सरकार में बैठे वो कौन लोग हैं जो माफिया ‘मित्रों' को संरक्षण दे रहे हैं?

प्रधानमंत्री जी, कब तक मौन रहेंगे, जवाब तो देना ही पड़ेगा।

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 22, 2022

“Why are NCB (Narcotics Control Bureau) and other government agencies still not able to nab ‘Narcos’ running drug cartels in Gujarat?” Gandhi asked in another post.

‘Narcos’ is the title of a Netflix series on drug cartels in Colombia.

Who are the people sitting in the government at the centre and in Gujarat who are giving protection to mafia ‘friends’, the Congress leader asked.

“Mr Prime Minister, for how long will you be silent, the answers will have to be given,” he said.

The Congress, who did well in the assembly elections in Gujarat in 2017, will have a tough challenge this time in the poll-bound state against the twin opponents of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party which has emerged as a force in the the state in the recent past.

Gujarat goes to polls this year end.

[With agency inputs]