Now, women's wing of AAP to focus on drug menace

Bathinda: After Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas's song Nasha ruffled many feathers in Punjab, now the women's wing of the party is set to start a campaign that would solely target women and raise the issue of widespread drug use in the state. The underlying theme is how drug addiction and rising unemployment have impacted women in affected families.
During the next two weeks, the wing would be telling women how they are the biggest sufferers of drug addiction.The party aims to reach out to nearly 10,000 women in each assembly constituency and has decided to get signatures from women against drug addiction, inflation and unemployment. The campaign will start from June 14 and will continue till June end.
The move comes at a time when there is a debate over the Central Bureau of Film Certification suggesting major cuts in the movie Udta Punjab. The wing has come up with a addressed to mothers, sisters and daughters. In the letter, the wing has written a story about a 45-year-old Sikh woman who is educated and has a son and daughter, but ends up losing her husband and son to drugs. "Women are the biggest sufferers in the case of any male in the family getting addicted to drugs. As drug addiction is rising rapidly in Punjab, it is ruining families. We want women from such families to rise and oppose this social evil, and and against unemployment and rising inflation," said AAP women's wing state convener, Baljinder Kaur. She said "teams of 20 women have been formed in each and every constituency which will contact nearly 10,000 women. The women willing to oppose drugs and unemployment will be asked to sign a plege".