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Tribune News ServiceLudhiana, September 13Under the “Sada Paani, Sada Haq” (Our water, our right) campaign, the Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) made a human chain at Chhapar Mela today. MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, chief, LIP, said the state government should ensure recovery of Rs 16 lakh crore (without interest) as water charges from Rajasthan at the earliest. The LIP workers displayed placards to gain support for their campaign for collection of water charges. Bains said, “Successive governments have failed to recover the amount from Rajasthan and other neighbouring states which get water through canals. Earlier, the SAD-BJP government had also not sent bill to Rajasthan, said the LIP chief..