Har Assembly condemns Punjab CM's statement on river waters

The Haryana Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution condemning Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's recent statement that Punjab and Punjabis will not accept any verdict against the state's interest on river waters.
The resolution was moved by Haryana's Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ram Bilas Sharma in the state Assembly and passed by the House, which met here today as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Haryana's formation.
The Assembly's main opposition INLD had sought that the resolution condemning Punjab Chief Minister's statement on river water issue be brought in the House. Senior Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda seconded the demand.

On Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had said Punjab or Punjabis will not accept any verdict against the state's interest on river waters and are ready to make any sacrifice to safeguard their legitimate share on it.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda
described as "serious" the SYL issue and accused BJP government of remaining mute spectator. He asked the treasury benches to pass a motion to condemn the statement of Badal.

"Badal is our elder and I respect him. But he (Badal) said he will not spare single drop of water and will not abide by SC order. I want to warn Badal that they will stop power supply and will not allow entry of truck to the state. They want to break the country," said Hooda.

Taking on opposition benches, state minister O P Dhankar said the way the Congress and INLD members boycotted a conference to mark golden jubilee celebrations at Panchkula yesterday should also be condemned.
"Some political leaders who left the ceremony yesterday wanted to set a political agenda which should be condemned," said Dhankar, drawing angry reactions from opposition benches.
Haryana minister Anil Vij also hit out at the opposition party for boycotting the function.
Members of INLD took objection to the statement of Vij and engaged into heated exchange of words with the sports minister.
INLD MLAs led by Abhay Chautala rushed to the Well of the House to protest against Vij as pandemonium prevailed in the Vidhan Sabha.

Speaker then 'named' several MLAs of INLD before adjourning the House for 15 minutes twice.
Before the adjournment of the House, Punjab Assembly Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal was also sitting in the visitors' gallery.
When the House proceedings resumed, INLD MLAs returned to their seats with Speaker expunging the objectionable remarks of both Vij and Chauatla.
Later, Independent MLA Jai Prakash demanded that those INLD MLAs who were being provided Punjab cops for their security and who were staying in Punjab government-run accommodations and hotels should also be condemned.
Haryana Assembly unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Punjab Chief Minister's recent statement that Punjab or Punjabis will not accept any verdict against his state's interest on river waters.

The resolution was moved by Haryana's Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ram Bilas Sharma in the State Assembly.
Haryana was carved out as a separate state from the then joint Punjab on November 1, 1966.
Notably, on November 1, Badal had said that Punjab or Punjabis would not accept any verdict against state's interest on river waters and were ever ready to make any sacrifice to safeguard the legitimate share of river waters.
Badal had said this while addressing a public gathering in Amritsar on the occasion of 50th year of Punjabi Suba celebrations, in which Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and BJP President Amit Shah, were also present.