Across the waters - The Teesta agreement should not be dawdled over any longer (Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, South Asia Monitor)

The Trinamul Congress's triumph has sent hopes of a Teesta waters breakthrough surging in Delhi and Dhaka. This close interdependence was evident earlier, too, when Sheikh Hasina Wajed inaugurated the flow of the promised 100 MW of power from the Palatana plant in Tripura. India, which invested $575 million in the plant, had transported all the heavy equipment across Bangladesh by developing a roll-on, roll-off jetty at Ashuganj on the Meghna river, building bypasses on water bodies, and upgrading the Sultanpur-Akhaura border. Motiur Rahman Nizami, the Jamaat-e-Islami chief who was executed for war crimes, provided a third, less-pleasant link. As a cabinet minister under Khaleda Zia, he was suspected of complicity in smuggling ten truckloads of arms and ammunition through Chittagong for rebel groups in northeast India

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