The BJP-led Haryana Government has decided to file a fresh suit in the Supreme Court to declare the Termination of Agreements Act passed by the Punjab Assembly null and void. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar while talking to the mediapersons said his Government would seek early hearing of Presidential Reference, regarding validity of the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, which has been pending for years now.
He said, “We will urge the Apex Court that Haryana should get our share of water through Sutlej Yamuna link canal.” The Punjab Assembly, however, on July 12, 2004, passed the Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, 2004, annulling all inter-state agreements signed by Punjab on sharing Ravi and Beas waters.
After the erstwhile Punjab was reoraginsed into Punjab and Haryana in November 1966, the two states have been embroiling in a water sharing dispute from Ravi and Beas rivers.