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Former Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar and BJP leader Tarun Chugh have criticised the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government over the state's law and order situation and drug menace. Jakhar announced he would write to the Governor and consider legal action to seek a ban on the entry of AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia into Punjab, describing it as a constitutional issue. He cited the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and his father in Jalalabad, Fazilka district, allegedly due to drug abuse, to highlight the severity of the drug crisis.
Jakhar alleged that criminals had been helped to escape justice and that the Chief Minister's name had surfaced in a Rs 5-crore bribery case before the High Court. Chugh claimed there had been grenade attacks on 23 police stations and a rocket launcher attack on the Punjab Police headquarters, adding that police personnel were instructed not to travel home in uniform. He alleged that the police system in Punjab had collapsed and that gangsters were operating with impunity.
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