“Silchar shares borders with three smaller states that are haven for drug cartels,” Rajdeep Roy 

Member of Parliament, Silchar, Dr. Rajdeep Roy spoke on the important issues of Drug Trade and Cross Border Terrorism during the one minute given to him in Parliament by the speaker. 

Roy started his argument by highlighting the magnitude of these illicit activities. “It controls around $500 billion business and when clubbed with cross border terrorism, it has crossed the $2 trillion which is almost 4% of World’s GDP. Therein lies the importance of Drug trade in the World.”

Then Dr. Roy asserted, “I come from a constituency that shares borders with three smaller states that are haven to all the drug addicts and drug users and drug cartels. My constituency also has an international border which falls at the crossroads of Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle.”

According to Indian Army, the notorious Golden Triangle represents the region coinciding with the rural mountains of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. It is Southeast Asia’s main opium-producing region and one of the oldest narcotics supply routes to Europe and North America. With a 1643km long border with Myanmar, India has been at risk for the longest time, even before the emergence of Golden Crescent.

Golden Crescent, on the other hand, is located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia, this space covers the mountainous peripheries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, extending into eastern Iran.

Silchar MP then alluded to the methods followed by Assam Police in curtailing the drug trade. He also lauded the efforts rolled out by Himanta Biswa Sarma but before he could go further, he was interrupted by the speaker forcing a rather abrupt end to the point Dr. Roy was trying to make. Unless the point was only to praise CM of Assam and mention that 4000 arrests have been made and Drug trade is being countered in a “Humanitarian” way.