Indian National lok Dal (INlD), the main Opposition party of Haryana, will launch a stir for securing the State’s share of water from the Satluj-Yamuna link (SYl) Canal. INlD’s senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala set a deadline of February 23 next year for the Centre for start of the work on the canal. “We will compel the Government to finish canal construction,” he said.
He said Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar and other BJP leaders often blame his party of doing politics over the SYl Canal issue, “but the truth unfortunately is that the power is in the hands of those who have no concern for farmers”.
The party also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to complete the canal, which Chautala described as “Haryana’s lifeline”. He said his party would fight a “do-or-die battle over SYl canal issue”.
Punjab and Haryana have been at loggerheads over the SYl Canal issue. The SC in a verdict in November, 2016 had held as “unconstitutional” the 2004 law passed by Punjab to terminate the Sutlej-Yamuna link Canal water sharing agreement with neighbouring States.
