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Awaaz-e-Punjab Members To Attend Special Session On Sutlej-Yamuna Link Issue

IANS, 11 Nov, 2016 02:41 PM

Three members of Awaaz-e-Punjab on Friday said they will attend the special session of the Punjab Assembly on November 16 on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue and thereafter resign as lawmakers.

Ludhiana MLA brothers Simarjit and Balwinder Singh Bains, and Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh who are members of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's front on Friday met Assembly Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal and demanded a private resolution on the SYL canal water sharing issue.

"Today we met the Speaker and demanded that a private resolution in the special session on November 16 be allowed for debate on the emergent issue," MLA Atam Nagar Simarjit Singh Bains said, adding after the special session all of them would resign as MLAs.

The debate should be held to expose political parties that "cheated" the people of Punjab on the SYL canal issue, he said.

Mr Bains has been demanding that Punjab recover the cost of 11.2 million acre-foot of water supplied to Rajasthan since 1965.

"Being a riparian state, it should recover the cost of supply from Rajasthan which is around Rs. 15.34 lakh crore," he claimed.

The Punjab cabinet had yesterday decided to hold an emergency session of the state Assembly on November 16 to discuss the SYL issue.

Mr Bains described the resignations by Congress MLAs as a "mere drama" and requested the Speaker not to accept their resignations so that they come and attend the session.

All 42 Congress MLAs have submitted their resignation from the Punjab Assembly on the SYL issue to Assembly Secretary Shashi Lakhanpal Mishra.

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