New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru erred in signing the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) without taking Parliament and the Union Cabinet into confidence, said people aware of the details.
Addressing the parliamentary party meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) lawmakers, the PM is learnt to have said that owing to the treaty, India did not get its fair share of water, and the then PM overrode all concerns about the water sharing agreement signed in September 1960.
IWT, mediated by the World Bank, allocates water from six rivers - the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej - between India and Pakistan. It was put in abeyance by India, post the April 22 terror at...
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