Chandigarh, May 3 -- Amid the ongoing water-sharing dispute between Haryana and Punjab, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Saturday said that politics should not be done in the name of drinking water. He expressed dismay over the issue being politicised, stating that Haryana is merely asking for its rightful share.

Saini said that he didn't know that politics can go to such an extent that it will be done in the name of drinking water and stated that the state government is not asking for canal water for just one person but for the society and 2 crore 80 thousand people of Haryana.

"Politics shouldn't be done in the name of drinking water...we didn't know that politics could go to this extent that a question mark arises on drink...