Chandigarh: In a bleak Haryana political landscape where the party has not been able to take up many issues effectively in the recent past, this is one matter the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) operational supremo Abhay Chautala has latched on to hard.
The INLD political affairs commitee, which met at 18 Janpath in New Delhi on Monday has decided to go ahead with its agenda of taking the matters regarding SYL canal into its own hands. The meeting reaffirmed the party stand on digging up the canal on its own if the government fails to do anything concrete by February 23.
The party plans to first assemble its activists, equipped with digging equipment, in Ambala and then proceed towards Ismailpur along the Haryana-Punjab border to take up digging of the canal. The meeting went into the details of the action plan to be taken up on the day as also the details of the people contact program underway in its 90 assembly constituencies.
The meeting was presided over by Abhay Chautala and Ashok Arora. Dushyant Chautala was among the others present on the occassion.