Chandigarh: Within hours of Punjab government's contention that it had agreed on Friday to a dialogue with Haryana on the SYL canal issue following Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's intervention, the latter strongly disputed the claim, saying it is "misleading and incorrect".
According to the Punjab government, Rajnath Singh had suggested that the Chief Ministers and Chief Secretaries of both the states sit and discuss the issue threadbare to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to the vexed canal issue.
It said the Home Minister called for marathon discussions between both states to resolve the SYL issue.
Addressing Friday's meeting, Amarinder Singh pushed for SYL dispute resolution through consensus, while calling for coordination by the states concerned with the Centre to find a feasible solution to ensuring optimal utilisation of river waters based on internationally accepted riparian principles.
Amarinder Singh said: "Though Haryana had less land, it was given more water at the time of Punjab's reorganisation (in 1966)." He pointed out that Punjab did not get any share in the Yamuna water.
Khattar said it was a matter of national concern that even after signing of the Indus Water Treaty in 1960, more than three MAF water is allowed to flow into Pakistan.
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