Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today claimed that the state's legal position would have been stronger had Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not played a "double game" on the SYL issue.
"Thanks to his (Badal's) playing the double game on the SYL issue, we lost in the Supreme Court what we had gained in the Assembly," the former chief minister said in a statement issued here.
"Badal, like an old fox and in his characteristic way, played the double game by first getting the bill passed in the Vidhan Sabha but not sending it to the Governor for his assent, apparently to provide crucial time to Haryana to approach the Supreme Court, which ordered the status quo and nullified everything that was done in the state Assembly with Congress support," he said.
He recalled and referred to the Termination of Agreements Act in 2004, which saved Punjab's water from other non-Riparian states, that was passed during his tenure and became a law within less than six hours.
