Overview

• On July 15, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann declared strictest punishment for those responsible for the drug-fuelled ‘genocide’ of Punjabi youth.
• The campaign has detained influential patrons, including former Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, in a disproportionate assets case tied to narcotics.
• Security forces have intercepted large heroin shipments smuggled from Gujarat and Rajasthan, which officials say has broken the trade’s backbone.
• Thousands of arrests and property seizures have accompanied this phase of Yudh Nasheyan Virudh as authorities target networks from street-level peddlers to wealthy financiers.
• Mann pledged to seal Punjab’s borders to stem drug inflow and to redirect young people toward employment and economic development.