No pact on Teesta without Bengal nod: foreign secretary

By IANS,

New Delhi : There will be no agreement on the Teesta river without the consultation of the West Bengal government, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said Monday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit to Dhaka.


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“Nothing is done and nothing will be done without the consultation with the state government,” Mathai told reporters. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has refused to accompany the prime minister to Dhaka to protest the final draft of the Teesta river water sharing agreement with Bangladesh.

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