New Delhi: assam leader minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on monday countered Pakistan's trendy water-related scare narrative, calling it a "baseless attempt" to stir fear over a hypothetical scenario related to the Brahmaputra River.
"Brahmaputra isn't always managed by a single source. It is powered by using our geography, our monsoon, and our civilizational resilience," he said. In a strongly worded post on X, Sarma laid out a reality-based total rebuttal to the viral declaration, "What if china stops the Brahmaputra's water to India?" "Let's dismantle this fantasy, not with worry, but with facts and countrywide clarity," Sarma wrote, declaring that the Brahmaputra is a river that grows in india, not one that shrinks due to upstream manipulation. The bjp chief highlighted that china contributes around 30 to 35 percent of the Brahmaputra's waft. This comes, broadly speaking, from glacial melt and restrained rainfall over the Tibetan plateau. In assessment, 65 to 70 percent of the river's extent is generated within india, thanks to monsoon rains and tributaries in the Northeast. Using hydrological records, the leader minister pointed out that the drift of water within the brahmaputra river at the Indo-China border (Tuting) tiers between 2,000 and 3,000 cubic meters in line with 2nd and swells dramatically to 15,000-20,000 m³/s in assam in the course of monsoon season. This, he stated, proves India's dominant function in sustaining the river. "The Brahmaputra isn't a river india depends on upstream. It's far from a rain-fed indian river gadget, reinforced after entering indian territory," Sarma stated. Responding to the viral claim of "What if china stops the Brahmaputra's water to India?" he stated the "not likely event" could "benefit" india through reducing the once-a-year floods in assam that displace loads of hundreds.
He added that China's plan to weaponize the Brahmaputra became a trifling hypothesis as fear-mongering. Taking a right away swipe at Pakistan, he stated that the neighboring U.S.A., which has long relied on the Indus Waters Treaty, is now "panicking" as india asserts its water sovereignty. A trans-boundary river, the Brahmaputra originates from the Mansarovar region near Mount Kailash in southwestern China. It flows via Tibet, enters india in Arunachal Pradesh, and continues through assam before making its way into Bangladesh, where it eventually empties into the Bay of Bengal.
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