Modi: Will bring back India’s water share flowing to Pak

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, October 18

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday assured farmers of putting an end to water shortage and reiterated that he had taken steps to get the due share of water flowing to Pakistan back to India.

Addressing a rally here in the run-up to the October 21 elections, the Prime Minister said previous governments in Delhi (at the Centre) did nothing as water meant for Haryana farmers and other parts of the country flowed to Pakistan.

 “A water plan under the Jal Jeevan Mission has been chalked out at a cost of Rs 3.5 lakh crore. The objective is to provide every farmland and household with water by 2024,” he said.

Taking an indirect dig at Pakistan, Modi said: “Maine bhi Haryana ka paani piya hai. Ek baar thaan liya to karke hi rahta hu. Apke haq ka hai, aapko milna chahiya. Iske liye har jaroori kadam uthane shuru kar diye hain. Main paani yahan bolta hun, aag vahan lagti hai (I have drunk Haryana’s water. Once I decide to do something, I get it done. Water is your right and you will get it. Steps have already been initiated in this direction. When I talk about water, it sparks fire in Pakistan).”

Modi urged voters to give another term at the hustings to the BJP government so that the Centre and the Haryana Government could work in tandem to resolve the water issue. 

He claimed he had got a whiff of political wave in the state and hoped people were set to give a record-breaking mandate to the BJP. “You very well know the deeds of the BJP government and the misdeeds of the previous governments. You have to decide which way you want to go,” the PM added.