Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday asked Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal not to play politics on the issue of Satluj Yamuna Link canal and withdraw the guarantee given to the people of Haryana.
Addressing the media at Gurdwara Rakabganj in Delhi, the SAD president said AAP has again started befooling Punjabis in its age-old tradition. “Punjab finance minister has now announced that the state’s river waters would not flow into Haryana. As a Rajya Sabha MP, he has given a guarantee on behalf of Kejriwal in Haryana that water from the SYL canal would irrigate each and every field in the state.”
Sukhbir said the continued silence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on the issue was being read as a weakness by Punjabis. “It seems Mann knows the real intentions of Kejriwal which the latter has made public earlier also by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court demanding water be released to Haryana and Delhi through the SYL. If Mann does not step in and ask Kejriwal to withdraw the guarantee given by his party to the people of Haryana, he should be prepared to face the angst of Punjabis who will not allow one drop of water to flow into Haryana from the SYL canal.”