NEW DELHI—While conducting hearing on the contentious SYL-canal issue on April 27, the Supreme Court of India made it clear that it was not against the settling down of dispute by the way of talk between Punjab and Haryana but the dignity of Court should be considered and respected.
The Supreme Court bench comprising Justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy was reacting to the information lodged by Solicitor General of India Ranjit Kumar in which he had told the Court that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was acting as a middle man between Chief Minister of two quarrelling states so that the issue could be sorted out at the earliest. He had told the Court that Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh and the Haryana CM had undergone meeting on this issue on April 20. The Solicitor General contended before the Court that the solution to this contentious issue could be explored if Court will give some time.
“We have no issues if the matter is settled but there is a decree of this court and it should be taken into account during the talks,” the SC bench replied. The bench further said that the dignity of this court and dignity of decree needs to be respected and we don’t wish to say anything further on the talks.
Senior advocate R S Suri, appearing for Punjab, said the Prime Minister met the two chief ministers and certain facts had come up, which needed to be ascertained. Terming it as an emotive issue for both parties, he said some time needs to be given as talks on it were yet to be considered as over. Senior advocate Shyam Divan appearing for Haryana said that no result had come out of the meeting and the possibility of any amicable settlement also looked very remote.
The apex court told the counsel for Haryana that it understood the anxiety of the state but he should also understand the situation at the ground level on other side. The apex court then deferred the next hearing onto July 11 for further hearing.
It may be recalled here that the Supreme Court had earlier addressed its verdict against Punjab by saying that the Punjab was not having any power to annul a two sided agreement. The Apex Court had directed the Union government of India to must construct SYL-Canal by deploying security forces. However, the Court had also said that the amount of water to be shared with Haryana could be discussed later.
The right answer to the problem created by the 1966 Politicians is REUNIFICATION of
1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Himachal Pardesh.
Imperialist forces in collusion with religious forces in 1966 under the “Divide and Rule” policy have left this headache for the today’s generation to solve.
PM Mr Modi along with Parliament must issue a “REUNIFICATION ORDER” and get rid of this problem once and for all.
No DISOBEDIENCE of this order should be entertained by the PARLIAMENT or PM.
Dignity of courts and Justice are intertwined .
Dignity is to be earned and not demanded.
Supreme court should have respected age old riparian laws which govern the distribution of river waters and not the agreement between two chief ministers who were stooges of Indira Gandhi and wanted to protect their positions. If they have respected the riparian laws then they would have gained respect of citizens of the country.