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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.
“ My deep appreciation for the decisive measures taken in Assam, under the leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma ji in addressing the challenges posed by cultivation of poppy. We stand…
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“ So next time you think of drugs, think of @assampolice first. #AssamAgainstDrugs,
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