Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday reiterated state’s claim over Chandigarh, Panjab University, and river waters before Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the 32nd meeting of the Northern Zonal Council here.

Mann also advocated genuine federal structure in the country at the meeting chaired by Shah.

Flagging the issues, the chief minister said the Constitution clearly demarcates areas in which the Union and the states have to function to exercise their respective authority. Unfortunately, there has been a trend towards centralization of authority in the past 75 years, he said.

Pleading for handing over Chandigarh to the state of Punjab, Mann said that the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, signed on July 24, 1985, between then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sant Harchand Singh Longowal,

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