BJD, BJP trade barbs over tribunal

  • | Tuesday | 21st November, 2017

"The Centre is helping Chhattisgarh at the cost of Odisha. "Now it wants to score political points on the issue," he added.Meanwhile, activists under the banner of Mahanadi Bachao Andolan on Monday staged a dharna near the assembly, seeking the establishment of the tribunal as soon as possible. This attitude proves that the BJP government at the Centre does not believe in the federal system," he alleged.BJP state spokesperson Sajjan Sharma, however, dismissed the charge and said the BJD government in the state should have stopped Chhattisgarh from carrying out any projects on the disputed river. BHUBANESWAR: The BJD on Monday lashed out at the Centre for not keeping its promise of setting up a tribunal to solve the Mahanadi water-sharing row between Odisha and Chhattisgarh.Party leader Prasanna Acharya said the Centre had on October 9 informed the Supreme Court that it would notify a tribunal under the Interstate River Water Disputes Act, 1956, by November 19 this year but did not do so.He added that the Centre had betrayed the state and favoured Chhattisgarh as it was ruled by BJP.

BHUBANESWAR: The BJD on Monday lashed out at the Centre for not keeping its promise of setting up a tribunal to solve the Mahanadi water-sharing row between Odisha and Chhattisgarh.Party leader Prasanna Acharya said the Centre had on October 9 informed the Supreme Court that it would notify a tribunal under the Interstate River Water Disputes Act, 1956, by November 19 this year but did not do so.He added that the Centre had betrayed the state and favoured Chhattisgarh as it was ruled by BJP. "The Centre is helping Chhattisgarh at the cost of Odisha. This attitude proves that the BJP government at the Centre does not believe in the federal system," he alleged.BJP state spokesperson Sajjan Sharma, however, dismissed the charge and said the BJD government in the state should have stopped Chhattisgarh from carrying out any projects on the disputed river. "Now it wants to score political points on the issue," he added.Meanwhile, activists under the banner of Mahanadi Bachao Andolan on Monday staged a dharna near the assembly, seeking the establishment of the tribunal as soon as possible.

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