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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Monday (November 17, 2025) said the culprits of the November 10 Delhi blast volition beryllium brought earlier the country’s judiciary and fixed the strictest imaginable punishment.
“Under the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, eliminating coercion from its roots is our corporate commitment,” said Mr. Shah successful Faridabad successful Haryana arsenic helium chaired the 32nd gathering of the Northern Zonal Council (NZC).
The gathering was attended by Chief Ministers Nayab Singh Saini (Haryana), Bhagwant Mann (Punjab), Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (Himachal Pradesh), Bhajan Lal Sharma (Rajasthan), Omar Abdullah (Jammu and Kashmir), and Rekha Gupta (Delhi); Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh Gulab Chand Kataria; and Lieutenant-Governors Manoj Sinha (Jammu and Kashmir), Vinai Kumar Saxena (Delhi), and Kavinder Gupta (Ladakh), among others.
Mr. Shah said Zonal Councils are highly important for dialogue, cooperation, coordination, and argumentation synergy. In the meeting, Himachal Pradesh asked the Centre to unafraid Himachal’s morganatic close implicit the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the associated superior of Punjab and Haryana.
Haryana raised the contented of non-construction of Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, the focal constituent of a water-sharing quality betwixt Haryana and Punjab. Meanwhile, Punjab reasserted its long-standing claims implicit respective cardinal issues, including Chandigarh, Panjab University, and the sharing of stream waters, and advocated for a genuine national operation successful the country.
Advocating for Himachal Pradesh’s morganatic close of 7.19% stock connected Chandigarh, successful onshore and assets, Mr. Sukhu said the request adhered to the mandate nether the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. He besides sought the merchandise of pending dues from the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) arsenic per the Supreme Court’s determination and assignment of a imperishable subordinate from Himachal successful the BBMB.
Mr. Saini said due arrangements indispensable beryllium ensured for supplying each authorities its rightful stock of water. “Haryana has consistently been giving Delhi much h2o than its ain share. However, owed to the non-construction of the SYL canal, Haryana is not receiving its afloat stock of h2o from Punjab. Once Haryana receives its rightful stock of h2o done SYL, Rajasthan volition besides get its owed share,” said Mr. Saini.
Mr. Mann said that federalism remained 1 of the basal pillars of our Constitution but unfortunately, determination was a inclination towards centralisation of authorization during the past 75 years. Mr. Mann demanded handing implicit Chandigarh to Punjab, saying aft the reorganisation of the State, the Indira Gandhi statement of 1970 explicitly stated that “the superior task country of Chandigarh will, arsenic a whole, spell to Punjab, which was a wide committedness from the Central government.
Mr. Mann reiterated, “Punjab has nary surplus h2o to spare done SYL.”
