Be considerate about ‘Punjab brethren’: Capt tells Haryana
Monday, 08/08/2011
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The Congress government in Haryana on Monday drew flak from the party’s Punjab unit for constructing a wall on river Ghaggar which is feared may lead to possible flooding of scores of villages in the two states.
Former Punjab chief minister and state congress president Capt Amarinder Singh asked the Haryana government to be more considerate if it were really concerned about their Punjabi brethren and stop the construction of the wall on Ghaggar.
Responding to a Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala’s appeal to his “Punjabi brethren, Amarinder said it was ironical that Haryana minister was seeking Punjab farmers’ cooperation even as his government was scripting their disaster.
“Does the minister want Punjabi farmers, whom he describes as ‘Punjabi brethren’, to cooperate in their own disaster and devastation?,” he asked, adding that Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has failed the people and farmers of Punjab and “Haryana would be equally to blame for any devastation caused by the possible floods.”
The state Congress chief said, if the Haryana government was so concerned about their “Punjabi brethren”, it should have been equally considerate.
He questioned the rationale behind the constructing the wall. “By putting up another concrete wall, running parallel to the canal, Haryana is blocking the natural flow of the flood waters from Ghaggar and preventing these from going towards Haryana, thus pushing these back towards Punjab, which will lead to imminent floods.”
Amarinder said Haryana had constructed only one siphon against 45 mandated for the flow of the flood water.
