{"id":291228,"date":"2025-04-26T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/indus-waters-treaty-a-major-strategic-blunder-by-nehru-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:11:07","slug":"indus-waters-treaty-a-major-strategic-blunder-by-nehru-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/indus-waters-treaty-a-major-strategic-blunder-by-nehru-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma\/","title":{"rendered":"Indus Waters Treaty a major strategic blunder by Nehru: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120650395,imgsize-44112.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Indus Waters Treaty a major strategic blunder by Nehru: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma\" title=\"Indus Waters Treaty a major strategic blunder by Nehru: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"7\">Assam chief minister <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/panache\/panache-people-101\/himanta-biswa-sarma\/profileshow\/87283349.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/a> stated that Pandit <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jawaharlal-nehru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a>\u2019s signing of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indus-waters-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indus Waters Treaty<\/a> in 1960 stands as one of the greatest strategic blunders in India\u2019s history.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:94-->In a post in X, Sarma stated, \u201cDespite India\u2019s natural upper riparian advantage, Nehru, under immense pressure from the then American administration and the World Bank, handed away over 80% of the Indus basin waters to Pakistan \u2014 gifting full control over the mighty Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab rivers, while restricting India to the smaller eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej). Pakistan received a staggering 135 million acre-feet (MAF) of water annually, while India was left with just 33 MAF. Worse, India\u2019s rights over the western rivers were limited to minor irrigation and run-of-the-river hydro projects without meaningful storage, permanently compromising the water needs of Punjab, Haryana, and Jammu &amp; Kashmir. Nehru\u2019s misplaced obsession with international approval came at the cost of India\u2019s long-term national interest, weakening India\u2019s strategic and agricultural strength in its own land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further stated, \u201cToday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has delivered a historic body blow to this injustice. By initiating India\u2019s withdrawal from the treaty, Modi has reclaimed India\u2019s sovereign rights over its rivers, sending a clear message that India will no longer reward terror and hostility with appeasement. This bold move strikes at the heart of Pakistan\u2019s fragile economy, where over 75% of agriculture depends on Indus waters, and corrects a historic betrayal that had shackled India\u2019s rightful control for over six decades. Modi\u2019s action marks the rise of a new, assertive India \u2014 determined to defend its interests without apology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s decision to suspend the treaty follows the killing of 26 people, mostly tourists, in a terror attack in <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jammu-and-kashmir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jammu and Kashmir<\/a>&#8216;s Pahalgam on Tuesday.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:80--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/indus-waters-treaty-a-major-strategic-blunder-by-nehru-assam-cm-himanta-biswa-sarma\/articleshow\/120650395.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru\u2019s signing of the Indus Waters Treaty in 1960 stands as one of the greatest strategic blunders in India\u2019s history.In a post in X, Sarma stated, \u201cDespite India\u2019s natural upper riparian advantage, Nehru, under immense pressure from the then American administration and the World Bank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120650395,imgsize-44112.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[12169,12171,21942,12170,12392,68959,114099,2326,19586,846,8334,37728,12172,15622,24108,26128],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291230,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291228\/revisions\/291230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}