Having kept the Centre on tenterhooks in the run-up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to Bangladesh from September 6, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee threw a fresh spanner in the works 48 hours before he leaves. Sources close to her declared on Tuesday that she would not be going with the PM, though in an indication that it may be little more than pressure tactic from the mercurial Mamata, there was no official word from the Chief Minister’s Office till late Sunday evening.
Insiders said she was unhappy with the final draft of the Teesta river water agreement, and that her decision not to go had been conveyed to the PMO through “proper channels”. Mamata would have been among the CMs of four states — the others being Assam, Tripura, Mizoram — bordering Bangladesh accompanying the PM on the trip.
According to sources, the Trinamool Congress leader is angry because the state had agreed to share up to 25,000 cusecs of water but the agreement talks of sharing 33,000-50,000 cusecs.
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