JJP seeks Governors’ intervention in Bhakra water crisis

Amid growing concerns over the drinking water shortage in Haryana, a delegation of the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) on Monday met Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and later Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria to highlight the crisis and seek immediate intervention.

The JJP leaders submitted memorandums to both Governors, urging prompt action to ensure the supply of water from Bhakra and SYL canal, which they claimed has been unjustly denied to Haryana.

“Haryana is facing a serious drinking water shortage. People are struggling for clean water, and Punjab is betraying them by not releasing SYL water, and now even Bhakra water is being withheld,” said Ajay Singh Chautala, JJP’s national president. He also blamed the Haryana BJP government for failing to secure even Bhakra water, stating, “What to speak of SYL, they couldn’t even bring Bhakra water.”

Chautala said during an all-party meeting, JJP had urged the Haryana Government to implement the SYL and Bhakra decisions through the Centre, but no concrete action followed.

Former Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala said, “Around 200 water supply stations in seven Haryana districts are dry. The Chief Minister himself has publicly admitted this. Both Governors must take urgent notice of this worsening situation.”