River water dispute: Cong stages walkout during governor’s address
Wednesday, 09/03/2016
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Tuesday said the state’s right to waters of its rivers should be “safeguarded” even as the Congress staged a walkout during his address on the first day of the assembly budget session.
Congress legislators, sporting black bands over their heads, were stopped from entering the Vidhan Sabha when they insisted on carrying black flags inside. Later, the protesters stopped chief minister Parkash Singh Badal at the entry point to the assembly.
During his budget speech that was marred by sloganeering by Congress members, Solanki, who is also the Haryana governor, said “injustice and discrimination” was meted out to Punjab over its river waters. He also backed Punjab’s demand for making Chandigarh its exclusive capital
Earlier, Cong ress MLAs walked out of the House raising slogans against the government for its inability to speak against the Centre’s move of filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court favouring early completion of the SYL canal project.
