Overview

• In posts on X, the BJP president called the agreement a 'Himalayan blunder,' alleging Jawaharlal Nehru ceded 80% of Indus basin waters to Pakistan and compromised India’s interests.
• He said Parliament was not consulted and that the treaty reached lawmakers two months later for a brief discussion, citing records of sharp criticism from Asoka Mehta, A. C. Guha and a young Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Framing the government’s stance as corrective, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for putting the pact in abeyance in April following the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people.
• The 1960 World Bank–brokered treaty, signed in Karachi, allocates the western rivers—Indus, Jhelum and Chenab—to Pakistan and the eastern rivers—Ravi, Beas and Sutlej—to India.
• Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir recently warned that any reduction in flows would prompt strikes on Indian infrastructure and invoked the country’s nuclear status.