Guwahati/New Delhi: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday demolished India to scare the latest Pakistani scary after going away from the Indus Water Treaty on Monday – what if China cuts the water supply of Brahmaputra in India? He called it a myth and cited hard data to prove the pieces of the river through Assam, a rainy waterway that grows in India, not shrinking.“Let’s eliminate this myth – not with fear, but with facts and national clarity,” Sarma posted on X, “Brahmaputra is not a river.According to Sarma, China’s contribution to river flow is minimal, only 30–35%, mostly from glacial melt and limited Tibetan rainfall. The remaining 65–70% is generated by the monsoon rains in Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya within India.Sarma listed the major Indian tributaries who fed the Brahmaputra – Subansiri, Lohit, Kamang, Manas, Dhansiri, Jia -Bharti, and Kopili, as well as Krishnai, Garo, and Jayantia Hills via Krishna, Degru, and Kulsi through rivers.If China ever “closes the tap”, Sarma said that it can actually reduce floods in Assam, which displaces millions annually. Brahmaputra flows 2,000–3,000 cubic meters per second when the Indo-China border in the upper Siang district of Arunachal is 2,000-3,000 cubic meters per second-but during the monsoon, Assam reaches 15,000–20,000 cubic meters per second in Assam in Assam during the monsoon.Supported by water regime experts, Sarma’s post received strong support from Nilanjan Ghosh, Vice President of Development Studies and Senior Director of Observer Research Foundation in Kolkata. Ghosh said that China’s upstream interventions would “be negligible or almost any effect” on the overall flow of the Brahmaputra.The Brahmaputra is born into an AngC glacier in Tibet, flows as a 1,625 km yarlung tsangpo before entering India, where it runs up to 918 km – as Siang, Dahong, then as Brahmaputra – and ends its 2,880km trip with a stretch of 337km in the bungalow life. Although China has announced a plan to build a large -scale hydroelectric dam on Yarlung Tsangpo, Indian experts said that Brahmaputra’s scale and Indian monsoon strength makes the possibility of water cuts a large extent.IDSA’s senior partner Uttam Sinha, citing the data-reviewed data, said that even during the annual outflow of Yarlung Tsangpo from China, there is much less than the total discharge of Brahmaputra in India.
