CHANDIGARH, Punjab—In an attempt to mount pressure on the BJP led state government of Haryana, the opposition leader of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Abhay Chautala said that if the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar doesn’t succeed in getting work at the SYL-canal initiated by February 23, his party would be forced to block roads leading into Punjab.
Calling the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar as a weak CM, Chautala asked the BJP’s CM Khattar to take up the matter with BJP led Union government to get the Supreme Court’s verdict implemented. He also asked the Congress leader and former Haryana’s CM to approach the Congress’ national leadership to convince the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee to not oppose the sharing of waters of Ravi & Beas Rivers with Haryana.
It may be recalled here that the Supreme Court had given its verdict in favour of Haryana, annulling the ‘Punjab Termination of Agreements Act-2004’ passed by former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh unanimously in the Punjab assembly in 2004.
Contrary to the SC’s verdict, the Shiromani Akali Dal led Punjab state government has de-notified the land acquired from farmers for constructing SYL-canal.
Slaves should not fight amongst themselves .
Speak for yourself and your own people. Sikhs are not and have never been slaves – our history of resistance despite genocidal campaigns and persecution against us is a living testament to that. As before I suspect you will wait for the Sikhs to fight for your rights whilst you keep your head bowed close to the ground.
The right answer to SYL imbroglio is reunification of Punjab ,Haryana and Himachal Pardesh.
No, the right answer is to respect international riparian law and India’s Constitution which clearly states that Punjab’s water belongs to Punjab. You only talk of ‘reunification’ because you see that as an easy way of bypassing the rights of Punjabis (and lets face it this means majority Sikh population as Hindu Punjabis already disregarded their homeland in 1966 referendum to form their own state of Haryana) by swamping them with voters from outside of Punjab. The right thing to do is build canals and desalination plants from the coast to these non riparian states – this will provide tangible employment and infrastructure investment. Whist these are under construction Punjab can SELL – NOT BE LOOTED FOR FREE – some of its water to help out its neighbours. Haryana can start to pay the price by re-ceding Chandigarh back to Punjab for a start (why is it Punjab had to share its capitol city when no other states do?) as well as the village of Hondh-Chillar, District Rewari, Haryana, where Sikhs were ethically cleansed in 1984 to remind Haryana of the unpaid debt it owes Sikhs.
I agree Haryana needs to punish the guilty of 1984 Sikh genociders before asking water from Punjab.
Haryana is not even ‘asking’ for Punjab’s water it is demanding it with menaces threatening public disorder and violent intimidation by blocking roads and interfering with the rights of Punjabis going on about their daily business such as travelling on buses.
India should establish a National water commission with reps from all states.
A decision in interest of all Indians should be taken based on some mutually agreed principle’s.
The principles are International Riparian Law and the Indian Constitution which both stipulate Punjab’s water belong to Punjab.
If these people start the agitation I would love to see how they are treated by the Indian Govt.Will they be tortured and charged with sedition as they have been doing to the Sikhs.As far as building the canal is concerned it should never be allowed and Internationally recogonised rapiaren laws applied to river water distribution should be respected.
I am sure Harish Sharma, I mean RSS Harinder will fully endorse that the rapid reaction force that was so speedily set up to intimidate the Sarbat Khalsa will also be deployed on the roads of Haryana to stop the ‘law and order problem’ of blocking roads. No, wait a second, those people protesting won’t be Sikhs so they will be allowed mob rule without any interference.