Exhorting the people to be prepared for making supreme sacrifices for safeguarding the waters of the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said that the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were jointly hatching a conspiracy to turn the state into 'desert' by snatching our river waters.
Badal, addressing the gatherings during Sangat Darshan program in various wards of Sri Muktsar Sahib assembly segment, said that these parties were inimical to the development of the state and prosperity of its people due to which they were now constantly weaving plans to deprive the Punjabis of their river waters.
Cautioning the people to not fell prey to malicious propaganda of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress, he said that both these parties were hell bent upon ruining the state.
Soliciting the support of people for saving the water of state for coming generations, Badal said: “All of us will have to struggle relentlessly to ensure that not even a single drop of water is taken away from us”.
Coming down heavily on the Congress party, the Chief Minister said that this party had signed various agreements to deprive the state of its river water. He said that the states like Haryana, Rajasthan and others were illegally given water from the state's share by the Congress despite of the fact that they had no right on it.
Badal reminded the people that the state Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh had enthusiastically welcomed the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to perform ground breaking ceremony of Satluj Yamuna link canal, which aims at giving Punjab's water to Haryana.
“Even Arvind Kejriwal's AAP was suffering from same anti-Punjab syndrome as Congress,” he added.
Terming the fresh affidavit by Delhi government in the Supreme Court on SYl issue as a political stunt, he said that Kejriwal’s anti-Punjab mind-set has already been exposed in its earlier affidavit which had termed Punjab’s stand on issue as unconstitutional and anti-national.
Badal said that Kejriwal government had submitted in the court that this stance of Punjab could disintegrate the nation adding that Delhi government had also warned Punjabis of dire consequences for taking this stand.
“Kejriwal has no affection with Punjab or its people and his sole intention was to vest political power in the state. The love of Delhi Chief Minister is confined only up to attaining political power whereas in reality he is pursuing the agenda of securing the interests of his native state on SYl issue,” he added.