Punjab’s drug menace has outlived a dozen crackdowns and three governments. It returns now, as it has before successive elections, to the centre of the state’s politics. On Friday, the BJP, which says it will contest all 117 seats on its own, flagged off the first of four “Nasha Mukt Punjab” yatras under the slogan, “Bhajpa Da Naara, Nasha Mukauna Saara”. The party’s president Nitin Nabin launched the campaign, which will cover nearly 4,000 km before culminating in Jalandhar on September 30, where Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to address a rally. The Congress has responded in kind. Its Punjab in-charge, Sachin Pilot, led a........

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