GoI’s failure to convince Mamata Banerjee to share Teesta waters equitably has allowed China to win Bangladeshi hearts by proposing to revive the river even without the due share of upper riparian water from West Bengal flowing in
The project involves strategic concerns for New Delhi as it will entail a Chinese presence within 100km of the India-Bangladesh border, close to the Chicken’s Neck, the narrow strip of land in north Bengal that connects the Northeast with the rest of India