Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday rejected the alleged secret deal rejected by the Punjab Congress to give away the State’s river waters to Haryana through the Hansi-Butana canal and asserted that it would never let this conspiracy see the light of day. 

Passing a resolution in this regard in party’s core committee meeting, the SAD said the Punjab Congress had, in principle, agreed to sell away the interests of Punjab and its river waters by giving 1,000 cusecs of water to Haryana through the Hansi-Butana canal. 

“Asking the Punjab Congress not to play with fire,” the resolution stated that earlier also, the SAD had led a morcha to stop construction of the SYL canal. “SAD would not hesitate to do this again…We will not allow one drop of our river waters to go out of the State,” the resolution affirmed. 

In another resolution, the SAD condemned the manner in which the Punjab Congress had become a party to insulting Akal Takht - Sikhs highest temporal seat - as well as the Sikh community by preventing Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh from entering the Chhota Ghallughara Gurdwara in Kahnuwan after the incident of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib there. 

The resolution stated that subsequent to this, instead of taking action against those indulging in sacrilege, false cases were registered against Akali leaders of Gurdaspur besides 500 other persons in an attempt to brow beat the SAD on the eve of the Gurdaspur by-poll. 

Stating that the party would not take this lying down, the resolution said that in case the Congress government did not withdraw these “vendetta cases”, the SAD would hold a massive protest on September 26 at Gurdaspur. 

SAD also noted the utter failure of the Congress government on all fronts including fraud with farmers, youth and weaker sections of society in yet another resolution. 

It said that six-month tenure of the Congress was akin to a dark era in which there was no hope of light with the government making it clear that it would not fulfil any of its commitments. 

“In such a situation the people have no hope from this anti-people government and it, on its part, has no moral right to serve them any longer,” it noted. 

The core committee also passed a resolution lauding the services rendered by India’s first IAF Marshall Arjan Singh saying that he had played a stellar role in 1965 war and was also responsible for turning the IAF into a modern fighting unit. 

It resolved that Marshall Arjan Singh should be awarded the Bharat Ratna for his services to the nation.