Chandigarh, Feb 07: Ahead of Tuesday's hearing in the Supreme Court, an all-party meet by the Amarinder government here today decided to plead Punjab's case on Satluj-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and Ravi-Beas river waters with the President, Prime Minister, water resources and law ministers in view of the ''altered circumstances'' and revival of the Eradi Tribunal after 17 years.

''An all-party draft committee will draft the memorandum tomorrow'' to be submitted to the dignitaries, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh told a media conference after presiding over the meeting which lasted nearly two hours. The principal opposition Akali-BJP combine and Bahujan Samaj Party boycotted the meeting. Describing the boycott by three of the 13 parties invited to the meeting as ''unfortunate'', Singh said ''Our government wants peaceful settlement of the issue unlike Badal who has been talking of spilling blood'' on the issue. Declining to attribute motives to the resurrection of the Eradi Tribunal, revived recently after it had submitted its interim report on the river waters dispute between Punjab and Haryana in January, 1987, the Chief Minister only quipped ''We are concerned but not clear as to why the tribunal has been revived''. Singh sought a new tribunal in view of the altered circumstances due to decline in the flow of water in the two rivers. The Eradi Tribunal had allocated water to the two states on the basis of time-in-flow data of 1960-80 period at 17.17 maf (million acre feet). The Chief Minister said flow had now declined to 14.34 maf as determined by the 1980-2002 data obtained by the Punjab government from Bakhra Beas Management Board (BBMB), a Central government body. Bureau Report