Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah will meet with families of individuals who lost their lives for speaking against synthetic drug ('chitta') traders in Punjab's Mansa, Sangrur, and Gurdaspur districts on October 20, 2026. In an official statement posted on the X platform, Shah directly accused the Punjab government of systematically pushing the state into an abyss of drug abuse, resulting in numerous families losing their children. The Home Minister characterized the grief of these families as beyond verbal expression and asserted that attempts to silence voices against the drug trade will fail, with the people of Punjab providing a befitting response. The Government of India committed to specifically tracking down individuals involved in the 'chitta' trade, imprisoning them, and ensuring complete elimination of the drug menace from Punjab and the entire nation.