CM, Badal differ on canal

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">CHANDIGARH: The bonhomie generated at the all-party meeting on last Saturday has started waning with chief minister Amarinder Singh and SAD president Parkash Singh Badal charting a different course on SYL crisis.<br /><br />Both agree legal course must be explored. Beyond this, there is no point of convergence.<br /><br />If the CM told the Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday that legal and constitutional measures should be adopted to deal with the crisis, Badal said nothing nothing short of agitation and people’s movement would help the state.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">On Eradi tribunal.</span><br /><br />Amarinder’s wants a new tribunal with wide terms of reference to settle the water shares in the Ravi-Beas and Yamuna basins.<br /><br />Badal, on the other hand, is for scrapping all past agreements, including the Eradi award, and strictly adhering to the riparian principle by which no state other than Punjab can use Ravi-Beas waters.</div> </div>