Chandigarh can be part of Punjab only if the Hindi-speaking areas besides SYL water are given to Haryana: Anil Vij | India News – Times of India

AMBALA: Haryana Energy, Transport and Labor Minister Anil Vij, contradicting Punjab’s claim over Chandigarh, on Friday said, “They (Punjab) have a misconception; they are not aware of the history of Punjab and Haryana. Chandigarh can only belong to Punjab if The Hindi-speaking regions are transferred to Haryana and Haryana receives its share of SYL (Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal) water. Otherwise, just as Chandigarh belongs to Punjab, it also belongs to Haryana,” Anil Vij said.
Reacting to former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s statement that this time it was the system and not democracy that won the Assembly elections, Vij said, “There are many ways to complain. He (Hooda) cannot accept defeat. people have rejected him (Hooda, Congress), and now they cannot bear it.” Vij further noted, “The people have cut their (Hooda’s) kite, and now they cannot bear it, and that is why he (Hooda ) such statements.”
On Rahul Gandhi’s statement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never read the Constitution, an agitated Anil Vij said, “Prime Minister Modi has complete knowledge of the Constitution, but you (Rahul Gandhi) do not. Your grandmother, Indira Gandhi, tore up the pieces of the Constitution. during the emergency.”
Vij added, “Rahul Gandhi is working to spread hatred in the country. The Gandhi family has not read the Constitution. Rahul Gandhi should know what his grandmother did to the Constitution. During the 1975 Emergency, all powers under the Constitution were eliminated. Lakhs of people were imprisoned, basic rights were suspended and forced sterilizations were carried out. So the Gandhi family has not read the Constitution and knows it well.