Amarinder ridicules ‘innocent mistake’ claim

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Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh has ridiculed the Shiromani Akali Dal’s claim that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had made an “innocent mistake” by signing and clearing the file for the construction of the SYL canal in 1978.

“Presuming that it was an innocent mistake, which actually it was not … will you apologise to the people of Punjab for the cardinal sin you committed by robbing them of their precious water and giving it away to Haryana, just to please your personal friend (Devi Lal)?” Amarinder asked Badal.

The PPCC chief wondered how a Chief Minister could play into the hands of “the clever babus in the secretariat” and clear such an important file in a routine manner, without having studied it, as claimed by SAD general secretary and party MP Prem Singh Chandumajra in Patiala.