Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday passed a ‘unanimous’ resolution, in the absence of the Congress legislators, declaring the Himachal Pradesh Government’s move to levy water cess on hydel power projects as “illegal” while seeking its “immediate withdrawal”.
The resolution recommended to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led State Government to request the Centre to prevail upon the Congress-ruled hill state to withdraw the proposed move maintaining that it was “in violation of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956”.
While the members of the principal opposition, Congress stayed away, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and BSP members backed the resolution.
