Gadkari tweets on 'stopping' water sharing with Pakistan, govt clarifies

The government clarified that the minister was reiterating the government's stated policy on the issue

In a series of tweets on Thursday, Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari said the Narendra Modi government has decided to stop India’s share of water that flows to Pakistan and supply it to people in Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab.

While Gadkari was merely stating a declared policy of the Modi government, first put forth in 2016 in wake of strain in ties with Pakistan, his office was forced to issue a clarification by evening lest the minister’s comments were to be misconstrued in light of the Pulwama terror attack on February 14.

In his initial tweets, the