Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said water that belongs to Indian cannot be allowed to go to Pakistan. He was speaking about the contentious Indus Water Treaty between the two countries. The prime minister was in Bathinda to inaugurate a new campus of All India Institute of Medical Science.
“The fields of our farmers must have adequate water. Water that belongs to India cannot be allowed to go to Pakistan…Government will do everything to give enough water to our farmers,” Modi said addressing a crowd in the state that will go for Assembly elections in 2017. He said his government has formed a task force to make sure that farmers in Punjab and the rest of the country “get each drop of water due to them”.
According to the treaty signed in 1960, India controls Beas, Ravi and Sutlej rivers, and Pakistan controls Indus, Chenab and Jhelum.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at those criticising the government over demonetisation, reported PTI. Modi’s reaction comes a day after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the demonetisation move a ‘monumental management failure’.
“Some people are criticising saying that the government did not make ample preparation. I think that is not the issue that the government did not make ample preparation. I think the pain of such people is that the government did not not give a chance to make any preparation,” Modi said. Modi was speaking at an event in Delhi where ‘Making of the Indian Constitution’ and an updated version of the Indian Constitution were released.
Modi further said that if these people had been given 72 hours to prepare, they would have showered praises on him. He said India’s name appears in the global corruption surveys and it is not something to be proud of. “To hold the nation’s head high some decisions have to be taken,” Modi said.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Manmohan Singh had said that the decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes was ‘a case of organised loot and legalised plunder’.
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