N-Deal: Left to decide on withdrawal of support

Zeenews Bureau New Delhi, July 08: CPM’s General Secretary, Prakash Karat, today said that the PM’s statement is a de facto assertion that the government has decided to go ahead with the Nuke deal. Karat is to meet with the other Left leaders to decide on the withdrawal of support to the Centre over the Nuke deal today. The Left parties are scheduled to meet today to decide on its withdrawal of support from the government over the nuke deal. Karat caustically remarked that the PM could have decided to communicate his decision to go ahead with the deal with the Left parties rather than announce it outside. The Left parties would also frame a reply to Pranab Mukherjee’s letter of yesterday in which he had asked for one more meeting of the Left – UPA coordination committee meeting on the 10th of July. Prime Minister had said on Monday that India will "very soon" approach the IAEA for a safeguards agreement for the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal where the "process will move very fast". Reacting to the Prime Minister’s statement Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas had yesterday said the Left parties would withdraw support to the UPA Government on July 10, the day when a meeting of the UPA-Left Committee has been convened. While CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat had declined to make any immediate comment on Singh's statement, CPI National Secretary D Raja commented that External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's suggestion for a UPA-Left meeting and the Prime Minister's statements were "contradictory". "The Prime Minister has put Mukherjee and the UPA-Left panel in a ridiculous position. The (UPA-Left) meeting has become meaningless now. Mukherjee should explain why he invited the Left parties for the meeting to finalise the Committee's findings if the government has already decided to move the IAEA. The Prime Minister should have some respect for the Committee." On Singh's statement that he was ready to face Parliament for a trial of strength, Raja said "If PM thinks he can manipulate the numbers, let him prove it on the floor of the House. What sort of ethics is he trying to project?" Asked to comment on Singh's statements on his way to the G-8 Summit, Karat told a news agency "We will reply to (Mukherjee's) letter tomorrow (Tuesday) and decide our future course of action." The SP is also meeting today to chart its future course of action. It had announced on that it would back the UPA over the N deal. Meanwhile the Deve Gowda led JD(S) and the RLD has hinted that they would support the govt if things come down to a trust vote.

The communists cannot afford the Congress government to fall at this stage while at the same time it is unable to support the nuclear deal. The communists can never countenance any advantage for the BJP. Thus, SP supporting the Congress must have been first proposed by the Communists themselves. If they are sure the Congress has the numbers, they will vote against the confidence vote. Otherwise they will abstain on one pretext or the other. - K.Venugopal - Mumbai

The earlier these sewer rats of communists get out of the government the better for the nation. Sewer rats are sewer rats and that is it. The Western countries and the middle east should vet the visa application forms of people coming from communist controlled states very carefully and not give a visa to anyone from these states who have voted for the communists Farhang - Farhang - UAE