Overview

• News18’s archival report revealed Nehru signed the 1960 treaty without prior parliamentary assent, underpinning BJP allegations of a legitimacy deficit.
• J.P. Nadda called the pact one of Nehru’s “biggest blunders” on X, highlighting opposition from MPs Asoka Mehta, A.C. Guha and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Nadda alleged Nehru “unilaterally handed over 80%” of Indus basin flows to Pakistan, leaving India with just 20% and compromising national water security.
• He praised Prime Minister Modi for putting the treaty in abeyance, framing the move as correction of a “grave historical wrong” by the Congress.
• The Modi government continues to reject recent Hague arbitration awards while accelerating canal and desilting projects to reallocate western-river water domestically.