Guwahati, April 27 -- Alleging that the signing of the Indus Waters Treaty by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru was "one of the greatest strategic blunders", Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the suspension of the pact sends a clear message that India will "no longer reward terror and hostility with appeasement".
Sarma also alleged that the country's first prime minister's "misplaced obsession with international approval came at the cost of India's long-term national interest".
He praised the Narendra Modi government's decision to keep the treaty in abeyance.
India's decision to suspend the decades-old treaty follows the killing of 26 people, mostly tourists, in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on Tuesday.
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