Kalam says N-deal is good, so does Amar & Mulayam

In that case why China and Pakistan, not only have nuclear weapons but are developing more sophisticated n-weapons.

Fully agree with you. But even Mr. Kalam does not know what is in this deal. I respect Kalam as I respect Sardar Patel, Subash Bose are Rajaji. But with full due respect Mr Kalam is a missile technologist, electronic and mechanical, it does not touch nuclear science. But his thoughts should be respected.

funny! what technology advani learnt??? nuclear technology?????/ the guy even dont have any idea about similiar treaties!! Kalam is best placed to opion on this.. he was involved in both space and nuclear projects... he knows... not junk Advani

The point is Mr. Kalam can only add on his genre of things like weapons which may even cover the N weapons, but the treaty has a lot of political twist to it which makes it not Mr Kalams cup of tea. The left thu is opposing tooth and nail because it has things like giving away key military secrets of India. We are a sovereign and secular nation, and i dont want some1 to sniff my doorstep.

And thats why the National Security Advisor (NSA)of BJP, Brijesh Mishra accused BJP of playing irresponsible politics into this deal and subotaging national interests!! No mean/silly person ever become an NSA! When BJP was ruling he played a keyrole in all policy matters!! so whats the point????

Looks like Vijay hasnt read newspapers for last 1-year or so... Kalams secreatry reveled in pretty plain terms that no such thing ever happened and it was all imgaination of BJP. He stated in fact Kalam made the appointment letter ready for Sonia but she insisted on making MMS the PM during the meeting... So dont spread lies... you know, many such liers later fall into trouble...

Mr.Vijay can't you see - Despite SP and Congi opposed Mr. Kalam's renomination, Mr. Kalam has extended his support for the N-Deal. Because he knows deal is good for the country. Everybody knows that people like Mr. Kalam will always support measures which will help India grow.

But Kalam has never claimed to be a Nulear Scientist.And just because he supports the deal does not make him one either.And it is not at all necessary to be a nuclear scientist to support the deal.Is Manmohan or Sonia or Lalu or Paswan or Pawar or Karunanidhi et al experts on the matter ?By the same corollary Karat, Bardhan et al who have been opposing the deal, can't claim to be experts on the matter.So why single out Dr Kalam for the codemnation? It is indeed extremely painful to see that Kalam is being made the target of attack by different people purely on grounds of political affiliations.I hope this will stop(with the help of your esteemed website)sir.At least we must not be so rude and offensive towards the man who has served the country so well asking nothing in return.Is he any worse than these political rascals be it of the left or right or the centre who have been enjoying the fruits of freedom we got due to the sacrifices of Bhagat Singh, Chadrashekhar Azad, Sukhdeo, Rajguru, Ashfaqullah, Subhash Chandra Bose and the likes?This must stop Mr Editor.You have provided us a forum to discuss matters of national importance but it does not mean that we ought to use it for denigrating a patriot of such stature as Dr Kalam in preference to these political dacoits.I hope my appeal will be heeded.

There is not one single posting which has lowered or insulted Mr. Kalam. If anyone is responsible they are Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh who un-necessarily brought his name for their own selfish games. Mr. Kalam is and will remain the most respected person in the history of of India.

cause what you presume is not true :)

"cause what you presume is not true", perhaps you are right but like wise we don't know what is in n-deal. I read in the newspapers the of possible reason why Gandhi was not appointed but no one knows the reality, do we know the reality about the deal ? Since US stand to earn tens of billions of dollars from India they will sign the treaty, today or tomorrow.

Nuclear deal and nuclear commerce are two different things. We can have a nuclear deal with US, but the driving force of nuclear commerce will be purely economics, they will have Russia and France to compete with.

In that case why US wants desprately to sign the deal if India will do commerce with others ? US must have something for them.

US has 123 agreement with China and Russia too, and both are primary members of NSG, signatories to NPT and CTBT. Yet they have an agreement. India is isolated and no nuclear fuel means no nuclear energy. This is one opportunity to come out of this isolation. Even Iran is signatory to international agreements on nuclear, hence they are construting nuclear plant.

Orissa, Ladakh, Chatisgarh and Jharkhand have world class uranium but Commies have provoked villagers against mining because of radio-active yellow cake uranium. But uranium itself is not radio-active unless it is processed. Once again we do not know what actually BJP did or did not accept but diffinitely BJP would not have accepted to sign CTBT and distroyed nuclear weapons when Pakistan and China are developing their arsnal. BJP's talk with USA was in infant stage when BJP lost office. I know one US senetor had said something like this but just note US is more worried than even Manmohan Singh is. When it was asked to Mukherjee to put the deal, including IAEA deal, on table his answer was "there are some secret clauses which can not be disclosed". What are these "secret" clauses ? Give Kashmir to Pakistan, never conduct nuclear test even simulated, slowly distroy nuclear weapons ? What are these "secret" clauses ? Actually no one knows anything about the deal, we all are talking about what has been told to us by newspapers and how we are interpreting it. Do you really trust Indian journalists ?

One has to trust one's government and the collective wisdom of its leaders who run the government, especially in matters of International Treaties. They can't go wrong with the future of this nation, where they leave behind a legacy for those who are yet to come.

Throughout the world every government takes the opposition in confidence before they sign international treaties. But this UPA government held and holds opposition BJP in utter contempt. Why ? Non-Congress parties actually represent 60% population, don't those people have any rights but 40% (minority) go and sign where 60% population might be against it ?

It is wrong to say that the BJP is against a deal with USA on supply of Uranium. The fact is that the deal is a slavery contract. If one wants to know the BJP view point then he or she must read the articles written by BJP MP Arun Shouri. These articles have appeared in Indian Express and are still available on internet. As far as the SP is concerned I can only say that Hindus have never been defeated by foreigners. They have always been defeated by their own breed.

Arun Shouri has right to express his views on the issue, but they come without any responsibility. It would be more credible when in power. There are similar statements made by our PM in favor of the deal, why not look into those? Don't you think the existing nuclear scientists who are responsible to run the existing nuclear plants would raise objections if they were in disagreement? See the opposition of this deal coming from Pakistan (who wants a similar deal too) and china. I wonder why would they oppose us having such a deal when its not in our interest.

We do not have uranium. When BJP tried to have a deal with Bill Clinton, he demanded that India should sign in NPT after destroying its nuclear weapon. So, the BJP did not go for it. That was correct. But now mighty Bush want to have relation with the India as India is emerging, so he agreed to India for civil nuclear cooperation with any country without signing NPT and with an indirect condition of not to perform another nuclear weapon test, which BJP oppose, but Kalam says we do not have to test it again and again, we need to worry when China or Pakistan do tests, at that time we/they can break the deal, till then we can buy uranium for our reactors. Also any country will afraid to stop trade with the emerging India. So, it needs simple guts which Cong. has. Communist does not have enough guts and they are against America. Why does Vajpayee not against the deal now? because the deal is okay for the India. The deal is a simple issue but communist over enlarged it.

It is wrong to say that the BJP is against a deal with USA on supply of Uranium. The fact is that the deal is a slavery contract. If one wants to know the BJP view point then he or she must read the articles written by BJP MP Arun Shouri. These articles have appeared in Indian Express and are still available on internet. As far as the SP is concerned I can only say that Hindus have never been defeated by foreigners. They have always been defeated by their own breed. The only mistake the BJP has made is that they have kept silent on this issue. They are very poor politicians.

Those people who exactly know why BJP is not going with Congress will vote BJP but those people who are just making their minds, without knowing the fact, will vote Congress. Do you really know why BJP refused to back up Congress ? Please find out Manmohan Singh's record for the last 4.5 years as regard to BJP.

Manmohan Singh's record fairs much better on social economics under given global turmoil.

He should have been given another term.But almost every political party including the BJP opposed his candidature. The left had opposed him from the very beginning and had put up a candidate against him(this is their sense of propriety!).And when it came to the question of 'position of profit'issue, in which politicians of every party including the leftists(e.g.Somnath)and the BJPites(Malhotra,VK)were involved they all ganged up to do away with Dr Kalam because after the first term he had become much wiser and had started understanding these politician's intrigues and manoeuvres.No party is clean in India.They all happen to be birds of the same feather be it rightists,leftists or centrists.

Yes, you are right. The BJP has many issues to take to the people this forthcoming elections. They could have surely bailed out Manmohan from the morass he is in now.

I agree. But why has Manmohan remained apathetic to the Kashmir land transfer issue? AsPrime Minister he is supposed to look after many things.He is not merely a Prime Minister for Nuclear Deal?Does not that deprivehim of supportfrom other quaters?

cause you have a state gov there who only has the authority to take necessary steps. Linking to two issues is being mischievous.

It has special(untouchable) status, unless Kasmiris put vote in favor of India in a plebiscite, as recommended by the Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten in 1947, and endorsed by the United Nations Security Council (bbc news). Now they wont, but in future yes because they are understanding that being with India is beneficial. So, the PM moves the coins correctly and J

I don't think this is correct assessment.These people would prefer to live under the wretched Pakistani rule simply because it is an Islamic state.Their hatred for India and Hindus is pathological.They are what you call'aasteen ke saano'.As for Manmohan he is incapable moving his coins because he does not have the coins to play with.He is a confused old man. He once made the ridiculous statement that muslims had the first right on country's resources!

That old man thinks better than anybody in the present plotics. When he became FM, India placed its gold in IMF to get fund and now simply because of his policy and Narashima Rao's frim support on him, India has been invited for G8 and people ae coming for job from the western world.

because he wanted to be a plotician and made so called secular statement. But Muslims are the poorest of the poor and lower than SC, so they follow what Mulla is saying. Once they improve then they will think and behave

No, they won't and they can't because of their religion.If poverty were the cause of their ills why would have the highly educated Engineers and doctors would have been involved in 9/11 and Glasgow airport blast?Never think that as we Hindus are prepared to change with changing times, these muslims,too, would follow suit.THey are following their regious edict of turning the entire world Islamic.They regard poverty as a gift of god so they are quite content to be poor.

You appear to be more foolish for the title that you have acheived. Out of over a billion muslims in this world, if a hand-full of them have committed 9/11 or similar acts, the rests are fools? they are not interested in their livelyhood just as you are. Are you the only one who wants to get on with your life? On what basis you make that your the only living intelligent creature on this planet and the rest are born to destroy you?

Now Mulayam is following Lalu's clever steps. But anyway Lalu worked hard to repair his name and railway as better profitable.