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CPI criticizes Indo-US nuclear deal

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, Jan 25, IRNA
India-US-Nuclear deal
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has criticized the Indo-US nuclear deal, claiming it will "cripple" the research work of the Department of Atomic Energy, and demanded that the government make public the details of the plan for separation of India's civil and military nuclear facilities.

Intense talks are on between India and America on some sort of a plan presented by New Delhi for separation of civil and military sections of the country's nuclear program, but neither the public nor the political parties in India have any idea about it, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said here.

"Strangely neither the Indian public nor the political parties, whether within the UPA coalition or the Left parties supporting them, have been taken into confidence as to what plan has been submitted to the US," he told reporters here.

He said "it is very strange that while the plan is being discussed by senators and think-tanks in the US, no one in India knows what it is.

"We are going to ask the government to clearly inform us about it."
Bardhan said the Department of Atomic Energy was understood to have raised objections regarding the nuclear deal "because it ties it down in the name of separation. This will very much harm the work of the DAE and will cripple it. This is intolerable," he added.

The CPI leader said America wants to acquire a "supervisory role" over India's nuclear program and the government should not allow it to do that.

"We are not dependent on America in the field of nuclear energy." He was elaborating on the deliberations held at the party's recent National Council meeting in Goa.

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