New Delhi: Amid the standoff with Haryana over water sharing, Punjab minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Sunday stated the state is not going to permit even a single drop of water to be launched to the neighbouring state and attacked the BJP-led Union and Haryana governments for attempting to “plunder” it. Placing a contrarian tone, Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala, nonetheless, questioned the silence of the Centre over the difficulty and requested the Modi authorities to instruct the Bhagwant Mann authorities in Punjab to not create any obstructions within the allocation of Haryana’s water.

Mr Dhaliwal’s assertion got here a day after an all-party assembly in Haryana requested the Punjab authorities to unconditionally launch water. Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini had hit out on the AAP authorities, saying not following the Bhakra Beas Administration Board’s course to launch water was “unconstitutional, inhuman” and an assault on the federal construction of the Structure.

Mr Dhaliwal on Sunday stated Mr Mann is preventing for the state’s share of water. “Simply as the top of a family saves each single rupee to run the household, in the identical method, the Punjab CM is saving each single drop of water for his farmers and Punjabis, and the BJP authorities is attempting to illegally plunder it… I stand with my chief. We cannot give even a single drop of water,” stated Mr Dhaliwal.

Congress chief from Haryana, Mr Surjewala referred to the alleged deployment of the Punjab police personnel on the Bhakra-Nangal dam, claiming it was obstructing the discharge of water to Haryana. He demanded that the Centre ought to get it free of the “unlawful occupation”.

“What’s the motive that the Narendra Modi authorities is just not issuing written orders to the Mann authorities below Article 257 of the Structure (coping with management of the Union over states in sure instances)? Why does it not give course to not cease Haryana’s water?” requested Mr Surjewala.

The Congress Rajya Sabha MP demanded that the Modi authorities ought to hand over the safety of the Bhakra-Nangal Dam undertaking to the Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF).

The stand-off between Punjab and Haryana over water sharing intensified on Saturday because the Punjab authorities boycotted a gathering of the Bhakra Beas Administration Board (BBMB) and an all-party assembly in Haryana requested the Punjab authorities to unconditionally launch the water.

The water-sharing challenge between Punjab and Haryana has escalated with the AAP authorities refusing to permit extra water into its neighbouring state and the BJP authorities’s statements that it’s going to safeguard Haryana’s “rightful share of water”.