After Manipur, Assam destroys poppy plantations
The Hindu
Assam destroys poppy plantations worth ₹27.20 crore, Chief Minister compares local cultivators to Pablo Escobar.
GUWAHATI
After Manipur, Assam has begun destroying poppy plantations.
On Sunday, the police in western Assam’s Goalpara district used tractors to destroy poppy plants on more than 56 acres of a sandbar in the Brahmaputra River. The destroyed crop of the opium-producing plant was worth ₹27.20 crore.
People living on some sandbars or ‘chars’, which are usually difficult to reach, have been known to grow cannabis. Officials said this was one of the first instances that poppy cultivation was reported from sandbars.
Taking to social media platform X, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma equated the local poppy cultivators with Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord who was killed in 1993.
“Dear Local Pablo Escobars, sorry to spoil your planned Udta Assam party! Because @Goalpara_Police destroyed 170 Bighas of poppy cultivation in the Char (sandbar) areas worth ₹27.20 crore in January. So next time you think of drugs, think of @assampolice first,” he wrote.
Manipur Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh was quick to respond to the post.
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