Chandigarh: The Haryana authorities has summoned a special session of the Assembly right here on April 5, days after neighbouring Punjab handed a decision looking for speedy switch of Chandigarh to the AAP-ruled state.
A choice to summon the one-day special session was taken at a gathering of the council of ministers, Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma instructed PTI over the telephone.
Sharma, who was in Faridabad, stated he joined the assembly, presided over by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, by means of on-line mode.
“A decision was taken to summon the special session of the Haryana Assembly on April 5. Several issues will be taken up in the special session, which has been summoned after Punjab brought a resolution..,” Sharma stated.
Earlier on Saturday, Chief Minister Khattar had condemned Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities in Punjab for bringing a decision looking for the switch of Chandigarh to the state.
Notably, the decision was handed by the Punjab Assembly on Friday within the absence of two BJP members who had staged a walkout from the House.
Khattar had additionally requested AAP nationwide convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann to hunt an apology from the folks of Haryana.
“What the Punjab government has done is condemnable,” Khattar stated whereas replying to a query on the decision.
“What they did is condemnable and it should not have been done,” he stated.
Khattar stated Kejriwal being the top of the Aam Aadmi Party ought to condemn it and apologise to the folks of Haryana.
Similarly, Punjab Chief Minister Mann too ought to apologise to the folks of Haryana, he stated.
The AAP-led authorities in Punjab ought to first get the Satluj-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal constructed and switch Punjab’s Hindi-speaking areas to Haryana, Khattar stated.
On Friday, Khattar stated “Chandigarh is and will remain the capital of Haryana and Punjab”.
Notably, the SYL canal subject has been a bone of competition between Punjab and Haryana for a number of many years.
In the previous, Punjab had been demanding a reassessment of its share of the Ravi-Beas rivers water whereas Haryana had been looking for completion of the SYL canal to get its share of three.5 million acre toes (MAF) of water.
In 2020, the then Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh had warned that it was an emotive subject and “Punjab will burn” if requested to share water.
Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij had on Saturday stated the “issue of Chandigarh is there but it is not the only issue”.
“There are other issues which are connected to it. There is SYL water (issue), (the issue of) Hindi speaking areas. They have not spoken on those issues. Whenever there will be a decision, it will be a single one. There cannot be different decisions,” Vij stated.
As the Punjab Assembly handed the decision, Chief Minister Mann accused the Centre of attempting to upset the stability within the administration of the Union Territory and different frequent belongings.
The decision, which was moved by Mann, was handed by the House within the absence of the 2 BJP legislators, who had earlier staged a walkout.
The Punjab authorities’s transfer to convey a decision within the state assembly got here within the wake of the Centre’s announcement that the Central Service Rules will apply to the workers of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Mann and lots of different events together with Congress and SAD had slammed the Centre’s choice, claiming that it goes towards the Punjab Reorganisation Act.
