- Scrap Indo-Bangla water treaty

  • 14/03/1998

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

BJP : With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) inching closer to forming a government in Delhi, the party's West Bengal unit is preparing to demand the scrapping of the December 1996 India-Bangladesh accord on sharing of Ganga water from the Farakka barrage. Although Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee had not protested the accord as much as the BJP, she was critical of the importance the Gujral Government had accorded to Chief Minister Jyoti Basu over the Ganga water-sharing treaty.