Pb govt adopting double standards on river water issue: AAP

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today 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 yesterday had 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 AAP 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.
The Solicitor General argued that since Rajasthan is a part of Indus Basin it has every right over Punjab river waters, he claimed, adding Kumar also opposed Punjab Termination of Waters Agreement Act and supported construction of SYL canal.
"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.

"The stand taken by the Centre in the SC clearly shows that Badal is playing a fixed match with BJP. His sympathy towards the cause of Punjab river waters and the farmers is superficial," he alleged.