CADA campaign eyes drug-use curb during polls
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 07 2022: Coalition Against Drugs and Alcohol (CADA) has announced launch of intense campaign to check rampant use of drugs, liquor and other addictive substances in the run-up to the assembly elections.

Briefing media persons at its Palace Gate office on Wednesday, CADA secretary general Geetchandra Mangang asked political parties to include eradication of drugs and other harmful substances in their election manifestos and also urged not to allot party tickets to those involved in drug cases.

Geetchandra said that the emerging trend of election candidates handing out drugs and liquor to youth with the ultimate intension to secure vote is strongly deplorable.

There are no signs of the police and excise department taking up appropriate actions to curb this sleazy practice and as a result, several tragic incidents including deaths from consuming addictive substances and other crimes are continuously occurring in the state in the run up to the elections, he claimed and regretted that all the political parties are completely engrossed in their pre-poll activities without any concern for the alarming issue of drug menace.

As part of the campaign to focus on eradication of drugs and liquor during elections, CADA will conduct awareness programmes at different villages, he informed and also mged political parties, intending candidates, government department, print and media and CSOs, meira paibi for support to make the campaign etiective.

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