Indo-US nuke deal not in interest of country: Left
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, March 8, IRNA
India-US-Nuke Deal
Renewing pressure on the government on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) today said, "it is not in the interest of the country".
"We are opposed to the deal because we think it is not in the interest of the country", CPI-M Politburo member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.
The CPM warned that its agenda was not the stability of the Congress-led coalition. Our agenda is the nuclear deal and not the stability of the government or an early or late election. whether government will go in for early elections is for them to decide, Yechury said in reply to a question on the sidelines of the party Central Committee meeting here.
At the same time he recalled that External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had said survival of the government was more important than the deal and ruled out early elections.
He reminded the government that there is a written agreement in the UPA-Left committee that it will not sign any agreement with the IAEA and come back to the committee.
It is only after the committee takes a decision that the government can take the next step, he said.
Earlier, downplaying the Left's threat to withdraw support, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today make it clear that neither the Congress nor its allies were thinking of elections before 2009 and there was no question of sacrificing the government for the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Mukherjee said India had conveyed to the US that it could not work within a specific time-frame to conclude the deal.
He was responding to the threat issued by the Left parties of withdrawal of support if the government went ahead with
operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
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