Jalandhar, March 20 -- Addressing a 'Punjab Bachao' rally in the Shahkot assembly constituency of Jalandhar on Friday, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal called chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann's demand for water royalty from Rajasthan a "knee-jerk reaction" to his own announcement that if elected to power, their government would not allow water into the Rajasthan canal.

He claimed that Mann only recently realised the injustice done to Punjab due to river water being diverted to Rajasthan and accused the CM of failing to act on a 2016 Vidhan Sabha resolution-passed under the SAD government-which demanded water royalties from Rajasthan, Haryana, and Delhi.

He added that the Akali Dal is committed for correcting the "historical wrong don...