Ashok RainaDharamshala, Nov. 9 -- Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Shanta Kumar on Monday said the benefits Himachal Pradesh had received from the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) following the Supreme Court's decision were the outcome of decades of collective struggle, and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu deserves no credit for it.
In a statement, former union minister Shanta Kumar said his party had initiated the struggle for Himachal Pradesh's rights for the first time in the state's history and had also fought to secure the state's rightful share in the waters flowing through its territory.
Recalling the struggle, he said he had repeatedly maintained that Himachal's water was "flowing gold", but the state was not receivi...