Left asks the govt to clarify stand on nuke deal

Mounting pressure on the UPA Government, the Left parties asked it to declare that the Indo-US nuclear deal is ‘off’ when the UPA-Left committee meets on Monday.

Making it clear that they are not going to wait ‘indefinitely’, the Left parties said a clear-cut response from the Government was essential to ‘end the controversy’ on the agreement.

”We do not know what exactly the UPA representatives will tell us. But what we expect is that they should clearly say that the deal is off or that it has been put on hold. Only then the controversy will end," CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said.

The comments came amid mixed signals from the Centre on the accord.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asserted last week that his was not ‘a one issue government’, saying that failure of the deal would not be ‘the end of life’.


However, on Thursday, Singh said that he was still hopeful on the deal and reconciliation efforts were underway.
Bardhan said the Government as also the UPA allies have taken cognizance of the Left stand that the deal should not be operationalised till all their concerns are adequately allayed.

Courtesy:IBNLive
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