Overview

• Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda urged the Haryana BJP government to stop holding fruitless meetings with Punjab and file contempt proceedings to enforce the long‐pending Supreme Court decree on the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.
• The Supreme Court and the Bhakra Beas Management Board issued multiple rulings this year directing Punjab to release Haryana’s allocated water share, but Punjab has legally resisted those orders.
• Hooda accused the BJP administrations at both state and federal levels of an anti‐Haryana stance that has stalled canal construction and withheld Haryana’s due water rights.
• He warned that Haryana’s farmers now carry an average debt of Rs 1,82,922—more than double the national average—and described how rising crime rates have left residents living in fear.
• With the Supreme Court set to review the dispute on August 13, Hooda insisted that the Union government must take immediate legal action to secure Haryana’s water entitlement.