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Chandigarh, April 27 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to come clean on the SYL canal issue and tell Punjabis whether his statement at Sultanpur Lodhi that Punjab did not have any water and that the SYL was not required still held true or not.
“Reports coming in from Delhi indicate that you have backstabbed and betrayed the Punjabi farmers who thought you were sincere when you spoke out against the construction of the SYL canal. Now however it appears that you were deceiving the farmers as your government has decided not to support Punjab on this issue in the Supreme Court”, SAD general secretary Maheshinder Singh Grewal said in a statement here.
The akali leader said it was strange that Kejriwal no longer felt the pain of the Punjabi farmers who were looking at a bleak future in case their water was taken away from them. “You also seem to have forgotten the principals of riparian laws which are applicable universally in case of river disputes and according to which Punjab has an unalienable right over its river waters”, Mr Grewal said.
Stating the utter hypocracy of Kejriwal could also be seen from the manner in which he had tried to humiliate its earlier counsel who had filed an affidavit as per the directions given to him. “Former AAP counsel Suresh Tripathy, whose integrity has been put into question by AAP, has made it clear in the apex court that he filed an anti-Punjab affidavit in the court on the directions of the Delhi government. This proves the extent to which AAP can stoop to deceive the people”, he added.
Maheshinder Grewal said in case Kejriwal was sincere in his approach to Punjab as was being claimed by him he should immediately get a resolution passed in the Delhi assembly appreciating and supporting the brave stand taken by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on the river waters issue. “If he does not do this it will prove beyond doubt that he had no wish to support Punjab and that he had misled the farmers of the State because he wanted to support his native State on this issue”, he added.
