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CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has written to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, government's key interlocutor with the allies on the deal, asking for immediate convening of a meeting of the UPA-Left Committee on the nuclear deal by mid-March.
CPI leader D Raja, a member of the Committee, met Karat this morning and discussed the strategy on getting from the government its position on whether it wants to go ahead with the deal despite Left's opposition to it.
Sources said Karat's letter comes against the backdrop of reports that the text of the draft India-specific Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA is more or less ready and the Left parties would like to have a discussion on that.
The Left missive also assumes significance in the context of the American deadline of May for the 123 agreement to be sent to the US Congress.
It is necessary for the government to complete the IAEA agreement by March end so that they can proceed to the Nuclear Suppliers Group for getting a waiver to do nuclear commerce with other countries.
"The Americans have set a deadline for the government.
The Left parties will also have to set a deadline for the government. The next meeting of the UPA-Left Committee will be crucial," a senior Left leader said.
The Left sees urgency on the issue after a spate of statements from the government expressing its virtual determination to go ahead with the deal.
They cite the reference in the President's Address to Joint Sitting of Parliament, the External Affairs Minister's statement on the issue and the Prime Minister's remarks on Wednesday in Parliament making it clear that it was keen on having the "broadest possible consensus" on the deal.
They also see in his remarks praising former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as 'Bhishma Pitamaha' and urging him to rise above narrow political interests to support the deal as attempts to divide the BJP on the issue.
Raja took note of reports that the US has conveyed to India that the nature of the government -- whether minority or caretaker -- would be of no concern to it when the 123 agreement is signed with India and the stiff May deadline referred by visiting Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher.
He said the government should make it clear to the Left, whose support is crucial for its survival, whether it was keen on going ahead with the implementation of the deal brushing aside their opposition.
Raja said in that case, the Left parties would also decide their future course of action.
The Left-UPA Committee on the deal has not met since November when it gave the go ahead for negotiations with the IAEA on finalising a draft safeguards agreement on the condition that it would not be initialled or signed.
It was agreed that the draft would be brought back to the Committee for discussion and approval.
Nuke deal will have to happen: Congress
Unfazed by Left parties' threat to withdraw support to the UPA government, Congress asserted that the Indo-US nuclear deal ‘will have to happen in the interest of the nation’.
"The deal will have to happen in the interest of the nation", party's Media Department chairman M Veerappa Moily said.
At the same time, he sought to downplay the CPM demand for an immediate meeting of UPA-Left Committee and the Marxist party's warning about the future of the government saying it was neither an ultimatum nor did the government face any threat.
"I don't think it as an ultimatum or government is under threat", Moily said adding the key outside supporters had never been ‘unreasonable’ and ‘till today everyone is on board and nothing has been obstructed and deal is on course’.
His remarks came close on the heels of CPI-M shooting off a letter to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, government's key interlocutor with the allies on the deal, asking for convening of the UPA-Left Committee meeting by March 15.
Karat's letter comes against the backdrop of reports that the text of the draft India-specific Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA is more or less ready.

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The christian occupation of India by the Europeans mainly British, have resulted in mass elimination of Indians in artificial famines. After the 1857 war of independence, the British have killed off some 10 million Indians in the next ten years. For 450 years these christians practiced slavery by snaching humans from Africa and used them as slaves in Europe and America. Some 12 million Africans were taken to USA and another one million died in the transporting ships of the British. Europeans went to North America as well as Australia and killed off the local population, in what can be called as genocide. In USA the Europeans distributed blankets of small pox victims to red Indians to kill them off. These Westerners are historically barbarians and have killed some half of billion of humans in the name of their religion Christianity, but now preach human rights. Economically these West is making us work like slaves for their hyped currency. The only aim of these nations is to have a better life at our cost. Inside their fair exterior they are still barbarians and we should not trust them with this one sided nuke treaty sponsored by their agents Sonia and Manmohan
Pressure is mounting on India to sign or face the prospect of trade war. Diamond industries is realise alredy slow down in raw diamond imports and that affected export of finish diamonds.The ultimatum is given to Congress is real.Signing N-deal means India will have to make huge purchase of conventional weapons in billions. But that is the whole point they want to sell their weapons. the wapons are piled up in junk yard generates no income.Rajesh Dharia
Nobel prize winner Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, in 2007 predicted that energy efficiency and alternative energy sources will send nuclear power the way of the dinosaurs in the near future. Nuclear power plants are declining globally as per Lovins, due to two powerful market forces: energy efficiency and supply competition.. "Global nuclear expansion is coasting to a halt," he said. The last nuclear rector was completed in the U.S. was in 1973 and that even under China's most ambitious targets for nuclear expansion, it would displace only 10 percent of the nuclear capacity that will soon go offline. The reason for the decline is cost: on an even playing field with no hidden subsidies, nuclear is simply more expensive than other options, especially co-generation. Lovins argued nuclear plants are currently being financed only in places where they are either mandated by governments or supported with generous subsidies. Investors are concluding that nuclear power is not an option compared with other technologies including distributed power from co-generation, next-generation biofuels, solar, wind, tidal, etc
Two parties, the Congress and the Left are to fool the nation by pretending that the other one is not sincere on the deal. If the deal goes through then electoral advantage wil be lost by both the parties. Congress then can't go to the people and say that "Look we forced the Left to agre what was goodfor India. We did this at the cost of threat to our government. The Left can then only sulk and chest beat that Congress has compromised National interest at the altar of George Bush. Hence both stand to lose. Hence now Manmohan Singh has brought in Vajpayee to compound the confusion. Indian Express which is a Congress mouthpiece and is also close to the Left is naturally delighted at this new development.
Jon Wolfsthal, a nonproliferation expert at the CSIS think tank in Washington, said it was possible the Bush administration did not want to release its answers for fear that they might make it harder for the agreement to win approval in India. "But even if that is the case, it would raise concerns,". "We always get into trouble when we get into secret agreements or wink-and-a-nod agreements," he added. "If the Indian political system isn't willing to support a deal that has certain restrictions, then we shouldn't be getting into such an agreement. It isn't sustainable." The deal is caught up in Indian domestic politics, with the communists who shore up the coalition government led by the Congress party threatening to withdraw support if it is pushed through. "The administration's responses should be made publicly available so that US and Indian lawmakers and the public can evaluate whether the draft U.S.-Indian accord conforms to the terms and conditions established by Congress," wrote Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. "The administration's unwillingness to make their answers more widely available suggests they have something to hide from either US or Indian legislators."
The Government’s Current Optimistic Nuclear Power Scenario based on statements made by the PM of adding 40,000 MW of Nuclear powerItems 2006 2016 2021 Total Installed Capacity in GW 134.7 303 445 Nuclear Capacity 4.12 20 40 Nuclear as a % of total 3.06% 6.60% 8.99%. So for the most optimistic 9 % contribution we are to ignore the possibility of an Iran pipeline, ignore our coal and hydel resources, wind energy and the solar power. In fact energy security can be achieved if a national effort were put into areas like coal gasification and fluidized bed technology since this would enable India to make optimal use of its vast high ash coal resources in an environmentally acceptable manner. BHEL has more insight into high ash coal than any agency in the US since there is no high ash coal in USA or Europe.
USA wants to Restrict India with a Nuclear deal. This reminds me of a story as given below- One Johnny wanted to have s*x with a woman in his office, but she belonged to someone else. One day, Johnny got so frustrated that he went up to her and said, "I'll give you a Rs 1000 if you let me screw you. But the she said NO. Johnny said, "I'll be fast. I'll throw the money on the floor, you bend down, and I'll be finished by the time you pick it up. She thought for a moment and said that she would have to consult her boyfriend So she called her boyfriend and told him the story. Her boyfriend says, "Ask Johnny for Rs 2000, pick up the money very fast, he won't even be able to get his pants down." So she agrees and accepts the proposal. Two hour goes by, and the boyfriend is waiting for his girlfriend Sonia to call. Finally, after a solid three hours, the boyfriend calls and asks what happened. She responded, "The b**tard used coins!" There is also a lesson in the above story: Always consider an agreement in its entirety before agreeing to it and getting screwed!
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cong.govt should proceed with the deal. CPM has never seen things in the proper way. their approach in Bengal and Kerala all these yars have found both the states still in the 19th century.especially in kerala the CPM still stands a stumbling block for the progress of the state.even if at the cost of an early election congree should not bow down to the pressures of the CPM.
What a pity. COMMUNIST parties are holding hostage progress of DEMOCRATIC India.
Why do we have communists in democratic set up. Our constitution is piece of garbage. Rewrite the whole thing and correct all mistakes on the basis of experience of last 60 years.
The UPA government was born handicapped and was paralysed after the 123 Indo-US Nuclear Agreement against which our protest will continue as the deal envisages US control over our nuclear arsenal. We all patriots and nationalists oppose N-deal. Fellow friends, by scolding Left you can't cover-up the truth. Face the truth, read the Hyde Act and its implications.
Left must withdraw support NOW. Bite, not bark. We want to see you bite and bite badly. Left is supporting n-deal, they are just cheating the voters with lies and false propagandas. Left is a part of Italian fascist christian raj of Sonia, and they will remain. This is the truth, all other are lies.
To quote Brajesh Mishra - National Security Advisor in the BJP government - "I don't bother about the Hyde Act! That is not something that bothers me. The Hyde Act is nothing if you have a look at the US Atomic Energy Act of 1954. That is the mother of all such acts." Read it here : http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/27inter.htm Those hyping the Hyde Act, should listen to the experts.
One should also pay attention to the US officials who time and again reiterated that the agreement will only be within the framework of the Hyde Act. One can ignore them and 'hope' for the best, but then that is not expected from leaders....
The left folks are cowards. A country like India with nuclear weapons cannot be held hostage to any foreign act. Do you think after the nuclear treaty if in National interest we have to go against the treaty we wont?? Be realistic. Once it starts there is no looking back. No piece of paper can make a country go against its own national security. Bottom line, ratify the treaty and lets see which nation in the world stops us from using it for our own purposes. Many things in the world are not done on paper. This is the ultimate Babu mentality. Indians need to be brave and take a plunge into the future not little communist cowards who must have a million guarantees before stepping forward.
Submiting to Hyde act is a cowardice act from national point of view.It is not indivisual act.Dirty game of congress will be on surface now.
The primary objective of Sonia and its congress is to make India avail to west for exploitation.
The primary objective of Sonia and its congress is to make India avail to west for exploitation.
Refer the article endorsed top nuclear scientists of India on Hyde acthttp://www.hindu.com/2006/12/16/stories/2006121616171500.htm
So ..the nuclear lobby in India does not want its powers to be diluted not their funding stopped. And this is reason enough for us to reject the golden deal that has China and Pakistan pulling at their hair in frustration ? In other words, you are trusting the words of the wolves against putting a door on the hen house ? Really smart ...ain't you ?
Majority of the readers have not understood the implications of the Hyde Act. As such they are for the N-deal. For Once the commies are correct though their leanings are towards their Masters abroad. If N-deal is signed we will become another State of the US. DO WE WANT IT? I request N-deal aspirants to go thru the Hyde Act minutely. It is surprising much of English media - and I would call them the Congress campwallas are for N-deal. It is a sad state of affairs that this govt. is selling India and our sovereignty for all times to come. I am for excellent relations with the US rather than China or Commies but it should never be at the cost of our Sovereignty.
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD CLEAR THE CONTROVERSY REGARDING IMPLICATION OF HYDE ACT AND 123 AGREEMENT ON THE SOVEREIGNTY OF INDIA BY REFERRING THEM TO A DIVISION BENCH OF SUPREME COURT. ONE THING IS SURE, OUR CONSTITUTION DOES ALLOW ANY ONE TO TRADE ON THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE COUNTRYTHE HISTORY OF INDIA HAS MANY INSTANCES OF THE RULING ELITE/ RULERS HELPING INVADORS TO CONQUER OUR MOTHERLAND
The very purpose of the Hyde Act is to ‘halt, roll back and eventually eliminate’ India’s nuclear arms capability'.
Has anybody given thought on why America has become so generous to offer its technology to India?
For the material-pleasure, we should not become BEGGAR by accepting their technology. Why are we not developing our own technology?
Left is Right. Americans are CRUEL.
Can we TRUST the DANGEROUS and CRUEL America? Once this deal is finalized and implemented, we will be dependent on their technology and nuclear power. I am sure America then will BLACKMAIL India on many aspects after this deal. Let us live without their nuclear power in dark, but in FREEDOM!
We must not accept their technology - Let us work hard for our indigenous technology!
We should not be dependent on America. We must develop our own technology!
when P.V Narshima Rao government signed GATT agreement these left n right all were hankering that its abject surrender to western power especially to "CRUEL" america ... In rallies these ppl said after this we the poor indians will not be allowed to do even Neem Ka Datum as Cruel US has IPR for neem.. now we all indians are enjoying the fruits of librelaizations started by Maonmohan singh !! So dont be mypoic, think bigger no power on earth arm tiwst our nation woth billion plus people.
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