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| CPI asks government to srap N-deal |
| The CPI today asked the government to take the 'Sense of the House' into account and scrap the agreement
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| INDIA
, 14-December-2007
9:15:27 AM |
| Insisting that majority of the lawmakers were against the Indo-US deal, the CPI today asked the government to take the 'Sense of the House' into account and scrap the agreement.
Party General Secretary A B Bardhan said his party will raise this demand at the next meeting of the UPA-Left committee on the nuclear deal.
''We do not want the deal. We do not want the deal to be operationalised...There is no doubt about it. Arithmetically, the Sense of House (Parliament) is that the majority of the members are opposed to the deal,'' Bardhan told reporters in New Delhi.
''That being so, the honourable way for the government is to take into account this Sense of House. We will emphasise in the seventh (next) meeting of the UPA-Left that this should be taken into account,'' he said.
He was referring to the debate on the issue in both Houses of the Parliament during the just concluded Winter Session, when all non-UPA parties opposed the agreement.
Bardhan parried a question on the statement by his CPI(M) counterpart Prakash Karat that they will ask the government to scrap the deal by December end, saying that he did not wish to make any comment on another party's statement.
Asked why the Left parties are prolonging the withdrawal of support in the wake of opposition to the deal, Bardhan said issues of national and international importance could not be disposed of like that way.
''We will come to you and inform you what decision we had taken,'' he said when asked whether Left parties will withdraw support if the government goes ahead with the deal ignoring them.
Bardhan said the Left parties have ''failed to convince the government and the government has failed to convince us'' even after a number of meetings in the last four months.
The Left parties had allowed the government to go to the IAEA to discuss India specific safeguards on the condition that it will come back to the joint committee, he said.
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