Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) members and leaders on Wednesday staged a protest in Punjab’s Abohar against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government, accusing it of ‘surrendering the State’s water to Rajasthan’, even as the AAP flatly denied it.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the AAP was conspiring to trade off the State’s river waters to secure votes in Rajasthan ahead of the upcoming Assembly election there.
He said the very fact that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had not denied news reports about the assurance given by him to the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) that the AAP Government would increase water share flowing from the Sirhind feeder (in Punjab) to Rajasthan, was proof of a diabolic plot to rob Punjab of its river waters.
