Punjab Assembly Special Session Live Updates: Punjab Assembly is holding a special session today to discuss the decade old water dispute with Haryana. The session follows BBMB's directions for Punjab to release additional 8,500 cusecs water to Haryana for eight days.

The BBMB's decision has drawn strong resistance from Punjab cutting across the party line emphasising that Punjab has not a single spare drop. State officials have contended that Haryana has already exceeded its quota and current flow was allowed only on humanitarian grounds. 

Earlier on Sunday, SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of ongoing water dispute between Punjab and Haryana. In his letter to PM Modi, Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the issue of water of Punjab’s rivers is not a dispute but a case of “brazen “loot against the people of the patriotic border state”.

The water dispute has once again gained light ahead of BBMB's water allocation cycle beginning May 21.  On April 30, state officials had attended a BBMB meeting where the board had ordered the release of 8,500 cusecs water. 

In a parallel move, Haryana held its own all-party meeting, with unanimous backing for its position. Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini claimed Punjab had agreed to the extra release, prompting Mann to call the statement “completely false and misleading” in a sharply worded letter, accusing BJP-led Union and Haryana govts of “bullying tactics against the people of Punjab”.