Chandigarh, May 1 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday asked Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) not to indulge in theatrics on the extremely sensitive issue of Punjab's river waters.
Badal said Mann should instead tell Punjabis why the AAP government had sold off the interests of the state by releasing 4,000 cusecs of water to Haryana a month back and failed to ward off release of another 8,500 cusecs now.
He said it was highly condemnable that instead of addressing the issue of desertification of Punjab and the blow to its farm economy, AAP was indulging in cheap 'dharnas' to deflect attention from the sellout of the State's River waters by the Chief Minister.
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