New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party on Friday raised the issue of an empty water train reaching drought-hit Budelkhand, even as Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien stressed that there should be no politics over water.

Naresh Agrawal, raising the issue in the upper house, said: "The train that arrived was empty... it did not have water. Center can help only when states seek help; we asked for money for making a dam in Bundelkhand."