Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar on Friday offered his support to his Punjab counterpart Prakash Singh Badal to resolve common issues with dialogue so that people of both the States could be immensely benefitted. Khattar even suggested to form joint committees to resolve all the interstate issues concerning Punjab and Haryana, including transfer of Chandigarh and other ounjabi speaking areas to Punjab, Satluj-Yamuna link canal, among others.
He said that both Haryana and Punjab were like brothers and they should sit together to resolve their outstanding issues. He pledged all support and cooperation to the Chief Minister. “After the inception of Haryana as a separate state, it was like elder and younger brothers and the people of both states have cordial relations. There were some common issues between both the states which need to be addressed for benefit of people. This will strengthen brotherhood and accelerate the pace of development of both the states,” he said.
Paying reverence to the holy land of Sri Anandpur Sahib on behalf of people of Haryana, Khattar said that Sikh community has enormous history of supreme sacrifices for the country. “I bow before this holy land of the gurus, which also remained associated with Haryana, which was then a part of joint Punjab,” he said.
Highlighting life of Guru Tegh Bahadur who travelled from Anandpur Sahib to Delhi to sacrifice his life for freedom of religion and the right of people which ignited the light of sacrifice in the entire country, he said: “The first sign of this wave was in Badkhalsa village in Sonipat district in Haryana.”Khattar also highlighted the sacrifices of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur