By IANS,
Ludhiana : The ongoing hunger strike by Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) president and MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and his supporters, demanding that the state government act against rampant drug abuse, completed 100 hours Thursday.
Bittu and other PYC activists want the Punjab government to form a drug prevention board and a committee of the legislative assembly to monitor steps taken to prevent drug abuse.
“Ravneet Bittu and 11 other activists have been without food for over 100 hours. The hunger strike has entered the fifth day today (Thursday),” a PYC spokesperson said here.
Bittu said in a statement that though Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had verbally assured that a drug prevention board would be set up, no formal orders had been passed by the government.
“After a verbal announcement, why is chief minister Parkash Singh Badal delaying the written letter which takes hardly five minutes to draft and send through government officials. This clearly shows that the government is not serious about this issue and it is just speaking before the media,” Bittu said.
Bittu, a grandson of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, claimed that the hunger strike by PYC activists had received overwhelming support from people who were fed up with growing the usage of drugs, especially by the youth.
The PYC president was Thursday examined by doctors but he refused to give his blood and urine samples.