According to local news reports, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mun was hospitalized a few days after drinking a glass of water from the Kali River, sacred to the Sikh community.
Mann tried to prove that the river was clean on the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of a river clean-up project that had stalled in 2000. But Mann was still poisoned.
The Kali River is of great importance to the Sikhs because they believe that their first teacher “Nanak Dev” received enlightenment there and their stories say that he swam in the river and disappeared into the water before coming out three days later.
The length of the river is 165 km, and on its banks there are 80 villages and small and large cities, where sewage and industrial waste are dumped, which makes its water turn black, which is why it was called Kali Bein (Black River).
