| India has postponed the proposed Teesta water sharing deal with Bangladesh amid opposition from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Indian foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told the press in New Delhi Monday afternoon that nothing will be done without acceptance by West Bengal. Talking to The Daily Star following the airing of the news Monday afternoon, Mashiur Rahman, the prime minister’s economic affairs adviser, said: “We are not officially informed about this.” Indian Tara TV quoted the foreign secretary as saying the pact scheduled to be signed during Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to Dhaka from Tuesday has been scrapped. This is mainly because of the objection raised by the West Bengal chief minister. Mamata had expressed her unhappiness about equally sharing of Teesta waters with Bangladesh and had refused to accompany the PM to Bangladesh. Beside Mamata, chief ministers of Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Sikkim are scheduled to accompany the prime minister. Despite the scrapping of the treaty Mamata will not go to Dhaka, the television channel reports. Mamata is not pleased with equal sharing of the Teesta waters and she strongly believes that Bangladesh should get only 25 percent of the water of Teesta. She thinks that the pact is unfair. Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon was in Kolkata last week to ally Mamata’s concern but is seems now that it did not work. |
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