Indian gov't dismisses sell out charges over Indo-US nuclear deal
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 17, IRNA
India-US-Nuke Deal-Govt
Rejecting the opposition charge of a sellout to the US on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government on Thursday made it clear that it will not agree to any shifting of goal posts, fresh conditionalities or deviation in the July 18 agreement.
While emphasizing there will be 'no capping' of India's military nuclear program, based on the principle of credible minimum deterrence, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on Thursday said in Rajya Sabha that 'no shifting or deviation from the July 18 nuclear deal will be agreed to'.
Let there not be any 'misgivings or concerns' on this score, Sharma said intervening in the short-duration discussion on Indo-US nuclear deal in which opposition parties made scathing attack on the Government for a 'sell out' compromising the country's security interests.
Earlier, accusing the government of succumbing to fresh US conditionalities on the nuclear deal, main opposition BJP on Thursday demanded setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to oversee the implementation of a resolution reflecting the sense of Indian Parliament.
Opposing the 'fundamentally flawed' deal which would have a 'deleterious impact', senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said in the Rajya Sabha that India cannot bend to the will of the US Congress and this message should go loud and clear.
On Wednesday, Manmohan Singh tried to satisfy the dissatisfaction among some of the country's nuclear scientists.
He held a closed door meeting with the principal Scientific Advisor and the Atomic energy Chairman on the issue.
At the meeting, the prime minister made it clear that he would be telling Parliament about his apprehensions about the shifting of goal posts in the Indo-US nuclear agreement.
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