Stopped Vajpayee from going ahead with river-linking: Maneka

If you connect one river with another, it will kill both of them.

Don't be in any misconception,” she said.

Gandhi said one can build canals and clean them regularly but connecting Ganga with Gomti would kill both the rivers and is “extremely dangerous”.

She also questioned from where the land for such project would come.

“You will require 10-15 lakh acres of land which will be spoiled. Who will give that much land?,” she said.  

Modi, in his speeches during election rallies, has been advocating linking of rivers to prevent drought and floods in the country.