In a tweet, Sarma expressed his dismay, stating that the people of Bengal are enduring hardships due to the inefficiency of their government.

Repeating her charge that the floods in West Bengal are man-made, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to PM Narendra Modi and blamed the release of water by the Damodar Valley Corporation from reservoirs in Jharkhand for the situation.

Thousands of trucks are stranded at the Jharkhand-West Bengal border after restrictions on heavy vehicle entry imposed by the Mamata Banerjee government. The blockade follows the release of water from dams leading to floods,

The development comes at a time when Bengal CM Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the state would sever all ties with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for "unilaterally releasing water" which led to floods in south Bengal districts.

A top politician in eastern India today blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to relocate.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday ordered to stop vehicle operations between Bengal and Jharkhand.

Blaming Jharkhand for unbridled release of water through its DVC damns, CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was shutting Bengal's borders with the state for three days. The police reportedly stopped the entry of cargo vehicles travelling from Jharkhand to West Bengal at Duburdih Check Post near Maithon from around 7 pm on Thursday evening,

Trucks were seen lined up at Asansol border as Mamata Banerjee ordered the sealing of Jharkhand-Bengal land border.

Long queues of goods-laden trucks were seen along the Jharkhand border after the West Bengal Police restricted vehicle movement to and from the state from Thursday evening following floods that inundated southern districts of Bengal.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the sealing of the interstate border and stated that the Bengal-Jharkhand border would be closed for three days.

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