Cong leaders should ask Sonia to rein in Capt: CM
CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday accused opposition parties of indulging in “cheap political gimmicks” on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal issue while expressing confidence that the state would get its due share of water.
Seeking to corner the Congress on the issue, Khattar said its leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Kuldeep Sharma should ask their party president Sonia Gandhi to speak to Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, who has been claiming that he would not let the waters flow to Haryana through the SYL Canal.
Stating that the Supreme Court had already delivered verdict in Haryana’s favour, another decision was awaited after which no one will be able to stop the canal construction.
The CM was reacting to reported remarks of the opposition party leaders who had questioned as to why the CM didn’t take them along to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Earlier the opposition parties criticised me for not meeting Narendra Modi on vital matters like SYL canal, GST and farmers’ issues. Now I have discussed all these issues with the Prime Minister but they are criticising me for not taking them along,” he said here.
Khattar said that by not trusting an elected government and the chief minister, the opposition was insulting 2.5 crore people of the state. Referring to statements by Amarinder Singh and other leaders on the SYL issue, Khattar questioned who they were to prevent Haryana from getting its waters.
The Haryana CM also accused the Congress of shedding crocodile tears by claiming that no development was taking place in the state. He challenged the Congress leaders to go to the masses to see for themselves whether development was taking place or not.Khattar said that in the last about two-and-a-half years, about 3,500 announcements were made and work on 44% of these has been completed. The remaining would be completed within next one year, he added.
Comparing it to the performance of the earlier Congress regimes, Khattar said 6,400 announcements were made in 10 years. Khattar claimed that if his government got a chance to rule for 10 years, more than 10,000 announcements would be made and each would be fulfilled.