The special session of Punjab House today to discuss the release of water to Haryana today. Bharat News
Chandigarh: Punjab Assembly will organize a special session on Monday as the decades-old water-sharing dispute with Haryana. The session follows the Center’s instructions for Punjab to issue an additional 4,500 cusecs in a day from Haryana. Geo -management board (BBMB) Reservoir for eight days.
This step has been resisted from Punjab to connect the existing 4,000 cusecs in a day already flowing for Haryana, which suggests that it has no surplus water. State officials said that Haryana has already crossed its quota and the current flow was allowed only on humanitarian grounds.
Punjab Kang says, will protect the state’s water; Sad petitions PM
Punjab boycotted a BBMB partner States meeting on Saturday, protested against the short notice and claimed that the assembly would not proceed until the end of the session. According to Punjab, BBMB rules require a seven -day notice for special meetings. The last two meetings were also held with just one day notice.
The annual BBMB water allocation cycle starting from May 21 comes forward. The Center represented by the Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan represented Haryana’s demand despite the objections of Punjab. On April 30, both state officials attended a BBMB meeting, where the board ordered the release of 8,500 cusecs to Haryana.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann After the assembly session call, an all-party meeting was called on Friday. All political parties in Punjab expressed solidarity, although BJP politicians said that Haryana had received additional water in the past, suggested to avoid the current crisis.
In a parallel step, Haryana held its all-party meeting unanimously for its position. Haryana CM Naib Singh Saini It was claimed that Punjab had agreed to additional release, which inspired the value to make a rapid word “completely false and misleading” in a fast word, accusing the BJP -led Union and Haryana government of “a strategy to threaten against the people of Punjab”.
The party leader said after a Congress Legislature Party meeting: “We are ready. We will protect the state’s water and interests,” adding the party will withdraw its entire strategy from the press. Despite the united front, the political parties of Punjab have a long record of trade defects on the state’s water disputes.
Unhappy President Sukhbir Singh Badal, criticizing the AAP government in Punjab, appealed to PM Narendra Modi to intervene. “The current rulers of the state are playing with fire promising to release water to Haryana and Rajasthan,” he said. “Our CM Bhagwant Mann’s bellit posture is like closing the door after horse bolt.”
117-Out of the three SAD MLAs in the member’s assembly, only the Ganiv Kaur Majithia party has been formed. AAP has 93 seats, Congress 16, bj, BSP 1, an independent and a seat with Ludhiana West Bipol.
