Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari on Thursday held the state government responsible for the death of children linked to the consumption of Coldrif cough syrup in the state.

The Congress leader while addressing a press conference in Bhopal also questioned the functioning of the drug controller, alleging corruption in the approval medicine in the state.

“It is the responsibility of the drug controller for sampling of each medicine every year and there is a rule of sampling of medicines. But in Madhya Pradesh, instead of sampling of medicines, signatures (referring to approval certificates without testing) are done. The drug controllers take huge amounts for the approval of medicines. I am not making an allegation, everyone knows about it. Of that amount, a significant part of

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