ABVP holds march over drug abuse in Punjab

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of RSS, today took out a march here, accusing the state government of failing to formulate a strong policy against drugs and threatened to launch a protest.
Several students reached the rally ground here and later marched towards the Punjab Assembly but were stopped by police.
ABVP state Secretary Vikas Singla said "We had started a mass movement against drugs and tried to make youth in the state aware but till now our government has failed to come out with a strong policy to stop it. That is why we are now adopting the path of protest".

"Government has failed on issues of drug and privatisation of education and if Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal does not make any strong policies on these issues, we will scale up our agitation," he said.
The protesters demanded from the state government a bill on the issue in the ongoing Assembly session.
ABVP also attacked Punjab government for privatisation of education.
"We also demand from government to monitor newly-formed private universities and colleges. For this, a new education regulatory commission should be formed to have check on syllabus and fee structure of these institutions," the student leader said.