Haryana CM’s Punjab outreach akin to running with hare, hunting with hounds: Warring

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday questioned Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on the "conflict of interest" with Punjab and asked BJP leadership to clarify its position on Punjab waters.Interacting with media, Warring pointed out that Saini is the CM of Haryana and aggressively sought water from Punjab. "It is like running with the hare and hunting with the hounds," he said about Saini, pointing out that he cannot campaign for the BJP in Punjab and, at the same time, lay an unjustified claim over Punjab's waters.
Warring claimed that there was a proposal in the AAP govt of appointing two deputy chief ministers to accommodate different castes and religions. He said people should be appointed for their competence and not just because they belong to a particular caste or religion. "A deputy chief minister is like any other minister. AAP has resorted to such theatrics in the election year to try to appease different communities and castes without actually empowering them," he said.At the same time, he added that due representation for all castes and communities must be ensured with real empowerment, and not merely token and symbolic representation that AAP is doing.On the govt's ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh' campaign, he said it completely failed and now turned into ‘Yudh Jhaadu Virudh' (war against the AAP). He said if drugs had been finished in Punjab, AAP would not need to spend money on advertisements, as people would say so themselves, and that is not the case.