Ludhiana, September 13 Under 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. Punjab faces damages of hundereds of crores due to floods. Coal, marble and wood is purchased from other states. Similarly, when Punjab supplies its water through canals, it has a right over water charges.” Bains said the Punjab Vidhan Sabha had passed a resolution on November 16, 2016 that price of water should be collected from Rajasthan but the Congress Government has not sent any bill to Rajasthan since it came into power in 2017. Earlier, the SAD-BJP government had also not sent bill to Rajasthan, said the LIP chief.

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