INLD leaders mobilise support for show of strength
KARNAL: With only two days left for the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) workers to march towards Punjab to dig the SutlejYamuna Link (SYL) canal, party leaders are leaving no stone unturned to mobilise a huge gathering at Ambala.
Even INLD supremo and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving 10 years jail in the teachers’ recruitment scam, has been visiting every district during his three-week parole granted by the Delhi high court on February 6. Chautala has been asking his supporters to work hard for the party and reach Ambala on February 23 to attend the statewide demonstration.
The party workers are to assemble at the grain market in Ambala City that day, from where they will move towards Punjab to dig the canal.
On Tuesday, senior INLD leader Abhay Chautala visited Kaithal and Kurukshetra to hold meetings with party workers. He sought their support and cooperation for the party’s programme on February 23. Later, talking to mediapersons, Abhay said lakhs of people will reach Ambala to march towards Punjab and dig the canal.
Abhay, who is the leader of opposition in the Haryana assembly, accused leaders of the ruling BJP and Congress of politicising the issue, and said nobody could stop the INLD from claiming Haryana’s share of water.
When a scribe sought his reaction on health minister Anil Vij’s allegation that the INLD and Punjab’s Akali Dal are befooling people over the issue, Abhay got angry and said: “I did not come to answer these questions.”
Abhay also accused former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of politicising the SYL issue and said he should support the INLD in its fight for the rights of Haryanivis.
INLD leader KC Banger also reached Karnal and said that lakhs of party will dig the canal, which he said is the lifeline of farmers of Haryana.
ABHAY SLAMS BJP, CONG, SAYS NOBODY CAN STOP INLD FROM CLAIMING HARYANA’S SHARE OF WATER FOR ITS PEOPLE