India, April 26 -- The residents of Faridkot receive water after a gap of 10 days.

CHANDIGARH: It was on July 23 2019, when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from the Kotkapura constituency reached the Deputy Commissioner of Faridkot, Kumar Saurabh Raj, with a bottle filled with black, contaminated water. The situation has not changed a bit; the same brackish, stinking water is still being supplied to the people of Faridkot and Kotkapura. Faridkot, often hailed as the nursery of Punjab politics, now finds itself at a crossroads of broken promises and an escalating water crisis. From the days of Giani Zail Singh to Parkash Singh Badal, and now with the emerging political face of Kultar Singh Sandhwan, the district has been home to many promin...