Bhopal, Aug. 14 -- Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said the Indus Water Treaty has been cancelled and its water will be used for farmers.

"The Indus Waters Treaty has been cancelled, and its water will be useful for our farmers. The Indus Waters Treaty is no longer an issue; the issue is Pak-Occupied Kashmir. It is ours and will remain ours," Chouhan said.

He accused the Congress of cheating the country by giving 80 percent water of the Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab rivers to Pakistan, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi suspended the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam attack.

A day after the Pahalgam terror attack claimed 26 lives on April 22, India took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan that included ...