Viral video: 15-year-old challenges Modi to take on drug mafia
An online video featuring a 15-year-old class 10th student, who lost her father to alcohol, challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to up a war against alcohol and drugs has gone.
The video posted on YouTube is being widely shared on social media. Anie Ribu Joshy, who studies in Sacred Heart Convent Girl's Higher Secondary School in Thrissur, tells the prime minister to take active steps against alcohol, drugs and public smoking.
In the video the teenager, who lost her father to alcoholism at the age of 4 says:
"I love my country, I love India. I love my prime minister Shri Narendra Modi. I love you Modiji. Modiji did many things that others couldn't do, that was a big fortune for our Indian history. I challenge you Modiji, can you take away the drug mafias from India? Once you told that if every citizen of the country is healthy, the nation will be healthy and do you still think that our country will be healthy with all these drug mafias around? I know that if you take a step towards this topic, there is gonna be a massive change."
Anie, then tells Modi that she is challenging him to take on the drug-mafia because she believes in him.
"For the students, of the students, by the students, we introduce to you Fortune-S, an anti-drug education mission. The death of my father when I was four, made me take an unbreakable vow to protest and speak against smoke, alcohol and drugs. Let this end with us. Lets us stop using alcohol, smoke and drugs for a better world and better future. I challenge you Modiji; I challenge you. I know you can," the child says in the video.
Alcoholism and drug abuse have become a major problem for Kerala, where the state government is now has roped in cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar to campaign against drug and liquor abuse in the state. According to a report published in The Economist, 25% of all hospital admissions and nearly 70% percent of all crimes in Kerala were caused due to intoxication. 
