Sangrur, Dec. 3 -- A day after the Jal Shakti ministry informed the Rajya Sabha that the recent floods in Punjab were not aggravated due to poor reservoir management at major dams, Punjab cabinet minister Barinder Kumar Goyal on Tuesday said it validated the state government's stance and falsified the allegations of the Opposition which has been blaming "mismanagement" and "poor governance". Notably, the Jal Shakti ministry had asserted in the Parliament that the deluge was driven by exceptionally high inflows caused by extensive rainfall in the catchment areas.

Goyal, who addressed mediapersons in Lehra area of Sangrur, said that after the state was hit by floods, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan had claimed during his P...