Yaduveer criticises Home Minister, city police over ‘misleading’ statement on drug lab in Mysuru

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, Mysuru MP, has criticised Home Minister G. Parameshwara and the Mysuru City Police for allegedly misleading the public on the clandestine drug manufacturing lab, which was busted by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the city recently.

Addressing a press conference in Mysuru on January 31, Mr. Yaduveer raised questions on the “failure” of the local administration to act against the drug manufacturing facilities that were repeatedly being uncovered by security agencies from outside the state.

The busting of a clandestine synthetic drug manufacturing lab in Hebbal police station limits in Mysuru earlier this week comes close on the heels of the uncovering of another drug manufacturing facility near Outer Ring Road in the city a few months ago.

Referring to Mr. Parameshwara’s statement that no drug manufacturing materials were discovered, along with City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar’s statement that no illegal substances were located during the raid, Mr. Yaduveer expressed concern that the government’s swift “protective reflex” was “highly alarming.”

In a message on X, Mr. Yaduveer said Mr. Parameshwara and the City Police Commissioner were in a desperate hurry to dismiss the raid as a “follow-up” inspection of a “phenyl manufacturing unit”.

“This calculated attempt to misguide the public proves that this government acts more like a defence counsel for cartels than a protector of the people, prioritising the cover-up of its own failures over public safety,” he said.

When criminals from other states choose Mysuru as their base, they do so because they recognise a vacuum in local policing and an intelligence wing paralysed by political interference,” Mr, Yaduveer said.

The government has proved itself “catastrophically incompetent or deeply complicit” by turning our heritage capital into a “chemical drug hub”, Mr. Yaduveer added, in his post on X.