हिंदी
Chandigarh, 22 May 2025
Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia today said chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s theatrics had not only compromised the water rights of Punjab but had also taken the security management of the Nangal dam out of the State’s hands.
Terming the central government’s decision to post 296 CISF personnel at Nangal dam as a direct result of cheap publicity moves like locking the outside gates of the Satluj Sadan and posting Punjab Police personnel at the dam in a show of strength, Mr Bikram Majithia said “all this has spoilt Punjab’s case even more. What has never happened before is occurring now. Not only is the State being robbed of its water but has also been shunted out from its own township of Nangal”.
Asserting that the chief minister was squarely responsible for this mess, Mr Majithia said “instead of understanding the gravity of the situation and taking appropriate action he is busy generating Artificial Intelligence generated images to show himself as the protector of State’s river waters”. The SAD leader said the truth of the matter was that the AAP government had failed to prevent release of additional water to Haryana over and above it’s quota and had even been snubbed by the High Court which had directed that additional water be released to Haryana.
Mr Majithia said “all this is the result of the subterfuge with which the AAP government weakened it’s own case in the last three years with even AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal advocating release of Punjab’s river waters to Haryana and Delhi”. He said in this process the AAP government had dealt a deathblow to the State’s farmers and its agricultural economy. Asserting that everyone was feeling betrayed, including the political leaders who had attended the All Party meeting called by the AAP government on the river waters issue, Mr Majithia appealed to farmers to rise and raise their voice to save themselves and the State from ruin. EOM
