Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann asks BSF to enhance vigil at borders to check smuggling of drugs and weapons
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has asked BSF to enhance vigil at borders to check smuggling of drugs and weapons.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday urged Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Pankaj Kumar to enhance vigil at the borders of the state to check smuggling of drugs and weapons.
Bhagwant Mann met BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh today to discuss border security.
During deliberations, Bhagwant Mann said that Punjab, being a border state, faces numerous challenges in the wake of the smuggling of drugs and weapons from across the fence.
He said that this needs to be checked with a heavy hand as it poses a grave threat to the unity, integrity, security and sovereignty of the country.
Bhagwant Mann said that Punjab is fighting the country's war against drugs as not even a single ounce of drug is produced in Punjab, but as the state is on the transit route of drug supply, it is battling hard to prevent smuggling of drugs into the country.
Bhagwant Mann further said that meticulous planning and flawless execution of strategy against drug smuggling by BSF and the Punjab Police can act as a ‘barrier’ to save the country from the poison of drugs.
Bhagwant Mann said that this is the need of the hour to break the backbone of narco-gangster-terrorist nexus which is trying to flex its muscles for disturbing the hard earned peace of state. He assured fulsome support and cooperation to the Director General of BSF for this noble cause.
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