Srinagar, Sep 04: J&K Civil Society Forum (JKCSF )has asked all those political parties, contesting assembly polls, to include eradication of drug menace in their election manifesto.
In a statement issued Chairman JKCSF and former veteran trade union leader Abdul Qayoom Wani said that drug addiction has badly crept in the Kashmir society and was eating up its fabric unnoticeably.
“J&K Civil Society Forum has been on forefront against the drug addiction since its inception and today when people of different political shades have come forward to fight assembly elections and claim to give better representations to people in development and prosperity.
JKCSF believes that a society can not be prosperous unless it is cleaned from menace of drugs and other social evils,”he said.
Chairman Wani has expressed concern over the situation that not a single political party has so for included in manifesto the eradication of narcotic drugs and social evils from the society that is killing the future and lives of the youth in particular.