Opinion | In Pursuit Of A Drugs-Free Bharat

Anti-drug operations are no longer episodic; they have become systematic, intelligence-driven, and nationally coordinated

For Union Home Minister Amit Shah, governance has increasingly come to mean setting seemingly impossible national targets and then relentlessly driving the state machinery to achieve them. His approach was visible in the Modi government’s sustained rollback of Left-Wing Extremism, where the ambitious goal of a Naxal-free Bharat transformed from a political slogan into an administrative mission backed by hard deadlines, inter-agency coordination, and uncompromising execution. Today, HM Amit Shah has set before the nation another sweeping objective: a completely drugs-free India by 2047.

This is not merely another welfare slogan. For HM Shah, the narcotics menace represents a direct assault on India’s demographic strength, social stability and national security. It is a threat that operates simultaneously through addiction, organised crime, terror financing and black-money networks. That is why the Modi government’s anti-drug campaign has evolved from isolated policing operations into a coordinated national security mission.

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The seriousness with which HM Amit Shah views the issue became evident recently during “Operation RAGEPILL", when Indian agencies seized Captagon worth nearly Rs 182 crore. Captagon, a dangerous synthetic stimulant often referred to internationally as the “jihadi drug", has been linked in global security discourse to extremist groups operating in conflict zones in parts of the Middle East. The seizure was therefore not just another narcotics bust. It symbolised the growing convergence between narco-trafficking, terror ecosystems and transnational criminal syndicates. For the Modi government, drugs are no longer merely a social........

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