While the central government escalates its war on narcotics nationwide, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has turned the spotlight sharply on Punjab — accusing the Aam Aadmi Party government there of providing silent cover to a growing drug trade. The post, shared on Saturday, September 26, 2026, draws a pointed contrast between Prime Minister Modi's enforcement drive and what Dhami calls deliberate inaction in the AAP-ruled state.

Modi's Anti-Narcotics Drive as the Political Benchmark

The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, launched in 2020, has served as the central government's flagship framework for coordinating awareness campaigns, de-addiction outreach, and enforcement against narcotics across all states. The Narcotics Control Bureau has operated as the operational spine of that push, conducting seizure drives and inter-agency operations. Amendments to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act under the current government tenure further stiffened penalties and expanded enforcement scope.

Dhami's post positions this central machinery as the benchmark — and frames Punjab's record as the counter-example. The four images attached to his post, though their specific contents were not independently detailed, suggest the accusation is accompanied by documented visual material aimed at amplifying the charge.

Punjab's Drug Problem — A Long Shadow

Punjab has carried the weight of a cross-border drug trafficking crisis for decades, shaped heavily by its porous border with Pakistan. The issue became a defining election promise for AAP during its landslide 2022 Punjab campaign — the party explicitly vowed to eliminate the drug problem and won a sweeping mandate partly on that pledge. Four years on, that promise has become the most politically sensitive accountability test facing the state government.

BJP leaders have made it a recurring practice to contrast the central government's enforcement record with governance outcomes in opposition-ruled states. The pattern intensifies whenever state-centre friction is high — and a sitting chief minister publicly amplifying the attack, with imagery, signals this is a coordinated political pressure point rather than a stray remark.

AAP's 2022 Promise — Now BJP's Sharpest Weapon

The irony is hard to miss. AAP won Punjab in part by making drug eradication a central campaign promise. BJP has methodically turned that promise into a liability, benchmarking every enforcement update against the gap between pledge and delivery. Dhami's post is the latest instalment — and the explicit framing around 'silent support' to a 'growing trade' is a direct escalation of the language used in earlier critiques.

It is worth noting, as the research establishes clearly, that specific claims of active government patronage of the drug trade — 'silent support' — remain unverified allegations. The Punjab government has not, in established public record, been found to formally back narcotics trafficking. The charge is political; its factual foundation rests on enforcement outcomes, which remain contested between the two sides.