CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Chief, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and senior members of Punjab Congress took part in a march to the Governor’s office to hand over a memorandum to the latter, demanding him to take a stand for Punjab against the construction of SYL Canal.
Huge number of supporters joined the march, coming forward to fight against any decision that would lead to the construction of the Satluj Yamuna Link Canal. Those in attendance listened to the leading members of the Congress Party before moving towards the Governor’s office.
Partap Singh Bajwa, Leader of the Opposition warned that even though he respected the decision of the people of Punjab to vote for ‘badlaav’, this ‘badlaav’ would cost Punjab a lot. Bajwa stated that the current AAP government had a number of flaws, the most harmful for Punjab being AAP’s inexperience to handle power. He said that this inexperience was visible in every decision taken by the AAP government.
Raja Warring spoke boldly against the current AAP regime as well as the Central government. During his speech, the Punjab Congress President, while targeting the Central Government said - “The central government has always acted against the interests of Punjab, be it the 3 black farm laws, withholding the release of our RDF fund, insufficient release of funds to our flood victims, and now this issue of constructing the SYL Canal.”
Further commenting on the decision making of the central government, Warring claimed that “the BJP conveniently diverts all difficult decision making to the Supreme Court. On the controversial issue of Ram Janam Bhumi, the BJP conveniently involved the Supreme Court, and now on this delicate issue related to Punjab’s waters, the BJP gave an affidavit to the Apex court that it is beyond them to resolve the issue via arbitration so the court must decide on the same. This Warring claimed is totally against the idea of the federal structure. The Central Government must rise up to their responsibility.