SYL canal: AISSF threatens to launch stir

The All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) today threatened to launch a protest against the construction of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal on February 23.
A protest march will be taken out from Devigarh on February 23 and it will reach Kapoori village in Patiala at around 3 pm, where the outfit will start "closing down" the canal, said AISSF president Karnail Singh Peer Mohammed.
SYL is a 214-km long canal project to interlink the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers and defines water-sharing between Punjab and Haryana. The project has been suspended (rpt) suspended due to dispute between Punjab and Haryana and the matter is now before the Supreme Court.

Karnail Singh said Sikh groups have launched hi-tech mobile voting apps to muster support to challenge the Supreme Court's order on the canal before the International Court of Justice at The Hague in the Netherlands.
The groups are aiming to collect one million votes of the indigenous people of Punjab from all over the world by March 11, he added.