They don't need Teesta water?

When the Teesta is drying up this lean period with people of Bangladesh demanding due share of water of the cross border river from India, ruling Awami League men of Lalmonirhat think otherwise.
They don't want Teesta water at this moment.
At a press conference yesterday, they said farmers had cultivated about 1,20,000 hectares of land in Teesta char areas at 26 unions in the northern districts of Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Rangpur and Gaibandha.
“If India releases water, crops on these char areas would be damaged,” said Sarowar Hayat Khan, joint secretary of Lalmonirhat district AL. At least 60 thousand char families would be affected, he claimed.
Under a newly formed platform called “Teesta Nodir Purba Teer Rokkha Committee”, led by Sarowar, local AL leaders and activists staged a human chain before the press conference held around noon at Paruliya char village of Hatibandha upazila, where the Teesta barrage is located.

Safayet Hossain, deputy director of agriculture department in Lalmonirhat said the cultivated char land in total would not be more than 5,000 hectares in 17 unions of five upazilas in the district.
The Teesta flow has been as low as 416 to 830 cusecs since last February against 45,000 cusecs required for the boro fields under the Teesta barrage irrigation project.
Contacted, Mahbubur Rahman, executive engineer of Water Development Board at Dalia in Lalmonirhat, said if India releases water, it will have a very positive impact on agriculture in Bangladesh.
He added no land would be flooded unless Teesta flow reaches up to 30,000 cusecs.
Talking to farmers Azizul Islam, Naya Miah, Atiar Rahman and many others at Char Sholmari of Kaliganj upazila, it was learnt that only a few who have ability to set up shallow tube-wells for irrigation have cultivated maize and other crops on the char land.
But a lack of water in the river has made their life difficult as the underground water level is falling sharply, they said, adding that Teesta water is crucial for agriculture.
Farhan Uddin Ahmed Pasha, convener of Teesta Putro, a local platform to save the river, said AL leaders don't know the pain of people, so they stood against realising Teesta water share.