Mamata's Political Blockade at the Centre

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 05 January 2012, 00:33 IST   |    9 Comments
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Teesta river water sharing treaty:

Earlier there was a controversy over the Teesta river water sharing treaty with Bangladesh. The treaty regarding the river which flows from north Bengal into Bangladesh could not be sealed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's September visit to Dhaka due to Banerjee's opposition. She had told that she had not been shown the draft of the treaty and the agreement was not in the interest of West Bengal. She was quoted saying "The problem with Teesta water sharing was that they (centre) did not pay heed to our opinion and suggestion. They had doubled the amount of water (to be shared) than the agreed amount. If we had agreed with that, then north Bengal would have turned into a desert due to lack of water. So we disagreed with that."