Chandigarh, May 4 -- Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said the issue of
water of Punjab's rivers is not a dispute but a case of "brazen loot against the people of the patriotic border state".
The Akali chief "cautioned the country that not removing the reasons of alienation of Punjabis can push the state back towards the conditions that afflicted us all for over two decades. Justice is the best guarantee for peace and communal harmony in the country.
Badal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to end the reasons that have caused so much avoidable misery in the past.
"Removing the reasons of (Punjab's just grievances) and preventing the recurrence of the painful past needs to be a national prio...