Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday accused SAD-BJP Government in Punjab of “adopting double standards and committing fraud” with the people
of the State on river water issue.
“BJP stands exposed for taking anti-Punjab stand on the issue in the Supreme Court. It has also unmasked the Parkash Singh Badal-led Punjab Government
since SAD is in alliance with BJP at the Centre and Harsimrat Kaur Badal is a member of the Union Cabinet,” claimed AAP’s legal cell head, Himmat Singh Shergill.
The Centre had on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is maintaining its stand of 2004 taken on the Satluj-Yamuna link (SYl) canal case and wants that both Punjab and Haryana should settle their disputes on the matter by themselves.
Shergill, along with Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Kultar Singh, claimed that Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, representing the Centre in the apex
court, had “categorically
supported” the cause of Haryana and Rajasthan and their right over Punjab’s river waters.
“Badal and his party has no moral right to stay in alliance with the BJP at
the Centre. He should
apologise and ask his
daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal to
resign immediately,” Shergill said.