While roaming in various areas of Canada, I was surprised to see how this country has fallen prey to drug dealers. From ganja, opium and cocaine to heroin, everything is easily available in the market. If you pass by there, you will be disturbed by the foul smell of drugs. Even when homeless people are taken to shelter homes, they get drugs there too. The code name of the drugs is grass, wheat and what not. By the way, there are menu cards of drugs in many cities of Europe, whatever you need is available. Seeing the situation there, I was remembering the song from Dev Anand's film Hare Rama Hare Krishna… Dum Maaro Dum…! I was thinking about this plight of Canada and those European countries when I read the news in the internet version of my newspaper that a large consignment of drugs has been caught in Punjab and Rajasthan and one kingpin of this international drug smuggling gang, Tanveer Singh, is sitting in Pakistan and the other kingpin, Joban Kaleer, is in Canada.
These two smugglers were smuggling drugs to India through a local drug smuggler named Gursahib Singh. Gursahib Singh is lodged in a jail in Punjab but he used to give instructions to his nephew Jashanpreet Singh and his partner Gagandeep Singh through mobile and both of them were running the gang. Naturally this question arose in my mind and surely the same question must have arisen in your mind that how did Gursahib Singh get the mobile in the jail? Certainly the jail policemen will be involved in this. This is not possible without collusion. There is so much money in drug smuggling that why would the smugglers hesitate in putting hundred-fifty crores in the pocket of an officer?
I have warned many times in my articles about the drug trade that it is a kind of international conspiracy against India. Drug trade is also linked to terrorism. The great thinker Chanakya had said that those who take drugs not only ruin their future but also prove to be fatal for the society. Our enemy country is trying to make our creative youth fall prey to drugs. This is the reason why drugs are being sent to India from everywhere. Last year, 562 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of hydroponic marijuana were recovered from Mahipalpur in Delhi and 208 kg of cocaine was recovered from Ramesh Nagar in Delhi. There was a little uproar about that case because the name of a politician came up in it.
Drugs worth Rs 7000 crore were seized in Ankleshwar in Gujarat. Drugs worth Rs 168 crore were also found in the tribal area of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh. If we go back a little, in 2021, 3 thousand kg of heroin worth Rs 21 thousand crores was seized at Mundra Port in Gujarat. There is such a long list of seizures but this is like a drop in the ocean because drug mafias are running a parallel economy in the world and the drug business in India is worth lakhs of crores. Earlier, only the film industry and the rave parties of the spoiled children of rich people were talked about but now the drug business has spread everywhere. Along with metros like Delhi, Mumbai, villages and towns of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh are also victims of drug addiction. The most worrying thing is that drug dealers are trapping children studying in seventh-eighth class. These children take drugs and also deliver them.
When they fall prey to drugs, they are naturally made to commit various crimes. Since they are not adults, strict action is not taken against them. People are aware of the drug trade in Goa. Drugs have also hollowed out the states of the Northeast. A film named Udta Punjab was also made on the situation in Punjab, now Jan Suraj Party chief Prashant Kishore is saying that soon a film Udta Bihar will also have to be made. Now the question is how are drugs coming to India? Ganja may be cultivated secretly in some hilly areas of India, but opium, cocaine and other synthetic drugs are coming from outside. Opium is cultivated and processed in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistani smugglers and terrorist organizations send drugs to India from the areas of Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. Drugs are being continuously sent through drones on the Rajasthan and Punjab border.
Our security personnel are catching and killing drones. Pakistani handlers play a major role in sending drugs to these states. Handlers sitting in Canada have already set up a network in Punjab which is helpful, Nepal border is also a major route of drugs on which Chinese handlers have a hold and militant organizations active in Myanmar are also involved in drug smuggling. Smugglers get the advantage of the fact that people with similar looks live on both sides of the border. In such a situation, the only way to identify smugglers is that we should have a good intelligence system, extremely vigilant security personnel and a zero tolerance policy against drugs, otherwise we cannot succeed. A bitter truth is also that we have not yet been able to develop a strong mechanism to stop drug smuggling from the border, there are so many holes in the system, how many places will we paste patches? Therefore, the system will improve only when action is taken against the department heads sitting at the top. Okay, I have written all these things but will our enlightened MPs discuss this dangerous conspiracy in Parliament?