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Sai, who is acquainted with most the medicine shop owner goes to one of them and asks,” You don’t want to go and enjoy diwali with your family?” He gets the answer, “Today the people need us the most and we are doing our duty towards them on an auspicious day. God will bless us!” They go to Sai’s house, enjoy the diwali dinner and retire to bed with the decision of waking up at 4am in the morning though it would be very cold. They do wake us and on the plea to jog they jog towards the railway barrier. They were just a few yards from the barrier when they heard screams and shouts. As they reach closer; lo! This is how God had blessed the Medicine shop keepers, rather, Ajit thought that the Almighty had turned the table on them. The addict youths were running helter skelter barging into the shops and just grabbing smack, heroin and synthetic drugs; over-the-counter drugs like Buprenorphine, Parvon Spas, Codex syrup and spurious Coaxial and Phenarimine injections, whatever they got close to their hand. The streets of Angarh are littered with the implements of death. With heavy hearts the two walk towards the prison where they meet the only to have a glimpse of his helplessness on the supply of drugs to the prison. They proceed towards the college to catch hold of some students whom they can motivate to conduct some awareness program on drug abuse but face by a depressed group sending out a negative vibe. Though were not addicted themselves, they looked ahead to a grim future. This is so as the BSF officials who first came to Tarn Taran, where they too got an opportunity to get employed have stopped coming as they hardly get any youths who are fit. They had come in the year 2009 to recruit 376 candidates but went back with only 85. A student says, “We are no more those Punjabi's as described by Alexander and Vivekananda. Stop politics at the college level. College election is time when its premises into a death heaven. Drugs flow in from all parties to bag the president and secretary’s post”. They did not want to remember the dreadful scenes during assembly election. The carte blanche political parties had given to chemists to distribute dangerous prescription drugs to youth in a bid to woo their vote, depressed them, but gave the election officials a tough time. The election officials did raid the shops to arrest the drug haul but in vain. Ajit is reminded of the Punjabi folk singer Sartaj’s words, whose songs are always based on drug abuse-“Our political leaders are using drugs as a handle to swing votes. Not one party is interested nor do they try ever to confront this social menace”. Like him (who has set a school to rehabilitate drug addicts as well as their orphaned children) Satbir has opened a gym to bring the youth of Punjab and drug addicts to the main stream and bring back that old glory of ‘Land of Lions’, but then both are confused how to stop the flow of drugs which our neighbouring country is supporting with full force thus crippling our armed force indirectly. The only difference is that Ajit still moves ahead with hope but Satbir is full of negative vibe for which youths like Sukhbir dwindle and vanish. Can anyone give a solution to check this inflow of drugs? Should we form a forum or a party or a NGO to check this way to doom? This is bizarre scenario that our politicians fail to control and are also helping our neigbours like Pakistan to weaken our chivalrous mass fit for protecting India as the armed force.