Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu today said he won't rest until senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been charged under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, is arrested.
MHA Says Punjab Farmers Give Drugs to Migrant Workers to Extract More Work, Union Slams Claim
The letter is being looked at by the protesting farmers as yet another salvo by the Narendra Modi government to malign them.
A labourer drinks water while harvesting wheat crop at a field in Jhanpur village of the northern Indian state of Punjab April 18, 2012. Photo: Reuters/Ajay Verma
Rights03/Apr/2021
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has dispatched a letter to the Punjab government, alleging that farmers in its border areas have been administering “drugs” to migrant and bonded workers to work in their fields in order to extract longer hours of work from them.