Punjab has objected the central government move to transfer the subject of water from the state list to the concurrent list accusing that it has been trying to usurp the powers of states.
According to sources, Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal had sought direct intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in these regards.
He has written letter to PM, Home minister P. Chidambaram and Water Resource Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal urging them to desist from the purported move before it leads to furtgher suspicion and harm.
Badal has wrote in his letter that what was required at this stage was the resolution of the inter-state water issues harmoniously in accordance with the nationally and internationally accepted riparian principle.
Sources say that recently Chidambaram has hinted that the central government was considering a proposal to transfer the subject of water in the constitution from state to concurrent list.
Badal has said that the news had alarmed and anguished the people of Punjab who were already feeling aggrieved over the discrimination meted out to them on the issue of river waters.
He said the central government was making such moves in "a secret manner" and not informing the states.Badal said sharing of river waters was an emotive issue and a root cause of militancy which Punjab and the rest of the country had to pass through during the 1980s and 1990s.
(With inputs from IANS)
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