Patiala, April 15 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday reiterated that the state government would continue to demolish houses of peddlers till the scourge of the drug menace is eradicated from the state.

"The houses built by peddlers using drug money won't be tolerated and would face 'demolition'," Mann said while addressing a state-level function organised to mark the 134th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, at Punjabi University, Patiala.

"I won't tolerate that while one house is mourning the death of a youngster (due to drugs), and on the other hand, a house of the drug peddlers is lit with a string of lamps. We will demolish these houses. Bricks used in these houses have the blood of our youngsters," Mann said while talking abou...