Tipaimukh Dam
Indian lawmaker supports concerns
Calling for united protest against India's plan to construct the Tipaimukh dam, an Indian parliament member yesterday said the dam would adversely affect both Bangladesh and India's Manipur, Assam and Mizoram states.
Addressing a rally at Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar, Dr Tarun Mandal, member of Lok Sabha (the lower house of parliament), said thousands of Manipur residents would be displaced once the dam on Barak river becomes operational.
Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal organised the rally where its General Secretary Khalequzzaman and former member of the Assam Bidhan Sabha Zainal Abedin also spoke.
Speakers at the rally expressed concern on India's unilateral control of the Barak-Surma-Kushiyara though it is an international river.
They said the dam would greatly reduce the flow of Surma, Kushiyara and Meghna rivers during the dry season and trigger river erosion and flooding in the rainy season, rendering thousands of Sylhet residents homeless.
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