AAP won't let Punjab river waters flow to Haryana: Mann

The AAP on Thursday said it would not let the Punjab river waters flow to Haryana and accused the Akali Dal and INLD of trying to exploit the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal issue only for political mileage.

AAP MP Bhagwant Mann said AAP would not allow any water to flow to Haryana because Punjab has no extra water.

He said his party is firm on the issue and will take all possible legal and political steps to resolve the river water dispute between Punjab and other neighbouring states.

Accusing Punjab's SAD and Haryana's INLD of seeking to exploit the sensitive issue, Mann asked the people of the two states to be beware of the "dangerous designs" of the two parties, which, he said, were only creating law and order problem by "blowing" the SYL issue "out of proportion."

Asking SAD and INLD to "stop gimmickry and not to create situation for bloodshed," Mann said SAD is behaving like a defeated army which is laying land mines before retracting from the battle field.