Drug menace dominates BJP’s poll campaign in Punjab as it cuts across caste, religion, age

The saffron party, which has historically struggled to make inroads in Punjab, is aggressively pushing its campaign around the drug menace issue to get a foothold in the border State.The drug menace in Punjab has stayed at the center stage of political and social attention over the past more than a decade and because it cuts across caste, religion and age, it appears to have become the key poll campaign focus for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the run-up to the impending Assembly election.