West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, objecting to the talks on water sharing between the Centre and Bangladesh — a session the state was not invited to attend. Turning down the Centre’s proposal for sharing of Teesta water and the renewal of the 1996 Ganga Water Treaty, expected to lapse in 2026, she wrote, "Such unilateral deliberations and discussions without consultation and the opinion of the state government is neither acceptable nor desirable".
Government sources, though, called the Chief Minister’s claim "false’, saying in July last year, the Centre had asked the Bengal government to send a nominee to the committee meant to conduct an internal review of the 1996 water treaty. A month later, the state nominated the Chief Engineer (Design & Research), Irrigation and Waterways Directorate. On April 5 this year, Bengal’s Joint Secretary in the Irrigation and Waterways Department, conveyed the state’s total demand for the next 30 years, sources said.
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