{"id":354452,"date":"2025-06-21T06:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354452"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:55:14","slug":"omar-abdullah-opposes-canal-project-diverting-jk-water-to-northern-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/omar-abdullah-opposes-canal-project-diverting-jk-water-to-northern-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Abdullah opposes canal project diverting J&#038;K water to Northern States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-1024x626.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-696x426.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-1068x653.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah-687x420.jpg 687w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/12\/Democracy-in-India-ends-where-Jammu-and-Kashmir-begins-Omar-Abdullah.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">April- 28, 2022-SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Former Chief Minister and  National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah addressing a press Conference  at the Party headquarter Nawa-e-Subha, in Srinagar on Thursday  28 April 2022.Photo\/ Mohammad Amin War<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar: <\/strong>\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday firmly rejected the proposal for a 113-kilometre canal that would divert surplus water from the Union Territory\u2019s share of the Indus River system to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdullah said his government would prioritise local needs before considering supplying water to other states. \u201cLet us use our water for ourselves first. There is a drought-like situation in Jammu. Why should I send water to Punjab?\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to past disputes, the Chief Minister highlighted the longstanding water-sharing conflict with Punjab, which dates back to the construction of the Shahpur Kandi barrage in Pathankot. Although an agreement was signed in 1979, it only materialised in 2018 following intervention by the Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPunjab already had water under the Indus Water Treaty. Did they give us water when we needed it?\u201d Abdullah said. \u201cKitne saal unhone humein rulaya (They made us cry for so many years). For now the water is for us. We will use the water first, and then we will think about others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: \u00a0Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday firmly rejected the proposal for a 113-kilometre canal that would divert surplus water from the Union Territory\u2019s share of the Indus River system to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. Abdullah said his government would prioritise local needs before considering supplying water to other states. \u201cLet us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":346832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2014],"tags":[15686,17223,16709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354455,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354452\/revisions\/354455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/346832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}