Three prominent NGOs from Ludhiana have taken up cudgels against the use of money, liquor and drugs to woo voters during elections and have formed a 'Belan (roller pin) Brigade' to deal with such politicians.
"The crisis in Punjab is very deep," said Sanjay Sharma, the regional bureau chief for the Times of India newspaper. Since the early 1990s, successive state governments had failed to grasp the importance of industrialization, he said.
