Hyderabad, Nov. 2 -- Communist Party of India (CPI) National Secretary Palla Venkata Reddy today urged the Telangana government to take stringent measures to eradicate ganja and drug abuse in the state, stressing that narcotics are ruining the lives of young people.
"There should be no ganja in the name of enjoyment. The government must take an iron foot on drugs and suppress them completely," he said.
He was speaking at the concluding ceremony of the Kalajatha Bus Yatra held at Makhdhoom Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday.
The awareness yatra, conducted under the joint aegis of Telangana Bhasha Samskruthika Mandali and Telangana Praja Natya Mandali, began at Nizam College on October 27 and travelled across several universities and colleges t...