West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, left, together with Union Minister of State for Schooling Sukanta Majumdar operates a street curler to crush contraband medicine throughout a symbolic destruction drive underneath the ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat 2029’ marketing campaign, in Balurghat, Dakshin Dinajpur district, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026.
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Kolkata
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday (September 2, 2026) drove a curler over two lakh bottles of codeine-based cough syrup in Balurghat, mentioned he that the State is dedicated to combat towards medicine abuse.
He was accompanied by Balurghat MP Sukanta Majumdar and Well being Minister Sharadwat Mukherjee at this occasion in Dakshin Dinajpur district.
The banned cough syrup bottles had been lined up outdoors the Superintendent of Police’s workplace. The CM drove the curler over these bottles as a message towards drug abuse and drug peddling within the State and a warning to smugglers.
Mr Adhikari added that this drive is aimed toward protecting the youth of the nation out of drug habit. “My first message by that is that we now have to convey the youth out of drug habit,” he mentioned. He additionally added that whoever was concerned within the drug smuggling course of will face extreme prosecution and imprisonment.
The CM additional mentioned that earlier than this there was no coordination between the Border Safety Forces and the State police alongside the Bangladesh border in Dakshin Dinajpur which led to the unlawful smuggling of those cough syrups.
“Earlier, there was no coordination between the BSF and the police in Dakshin Dinajpur as a result of the BSF was handled as an enemy. Within the final 4 months, these narcotics have been recovered by joint operations,” Mr Adhikari mentioned.
He additionally added that since they’ve come to energy, they’ve been in a position to seize large portions of narcotics and medicines which was initiated because of the joint coordination of the BSF and State police authorities.
This was the CM’s first go to to Balurghat because the Bharatiya Janata Get together got here to energy within the State.
Printed – September 03, 2026 04:00 am IST
