"Their (Left parties) job is to take credit for whatever good we do but when something goes wrong they blame us," senior Congress leader P J Kurien said in the Rajya Sabha.

Participating in the resumed debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address to Parliament, Kurien said this policy of the Left was ‘not good’.

Kurien decried the ‘disinformation campaign’ of the Left parties, particularly in Kerala, that blamed the UPA Government for price rise.

The Congress member said he was particularly ‘pained’ at the Left parties which said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has surrendered before the US on the nuclear deal.

Amidst interruptions by the CPI and CPM members, Kurien said it was ‘our Prime Minister who condemned, on the American soil, the Iraqi invasion’ by the US.

Kurien said senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechuri had said that there was no inflation in China. "Inflation in China is 6.6 per cent, more than India," he said adding this ‘nails the disinformation campaign’.

He said contrary to Yechuri's assertion workers were subjected to hire and fire in China.

Referring to the Left criticism of the foreign policy being pursued by the UPA Government, Kurien asked whether China has surrendered before the US with signing of an international nuclear agreement.

Kurien said when India went in for nuclear explosion, the Left parties opposed it. But when India opposed the nuclear designs of Iran, they said it was done under pressure from the US. "India should not (undertake) nuclear explosion but Iran should have done it," was what the Left wanted, he said.

Hitting back at Congress, D Raja (CPI) accused the UPA of dividing the country on the lines of rich and poor and questioned the coalition's response to poverty, which posed the biggest challenge.

He said the government was not bothered about price rise and warned that the UPA would pay a political price in the coming days. "See the results of the Assembly polls," he said pointing out at the defeat of Congress in many states.

On the nuclear deal, he said there was no consensus among political parties.

Raja said the Left was not opposed to nuclear energy per se, but its concern was because the agreement was about strategic partnership. "No self-respecting country can succumb to pressure. So, we demand that the agreement should not be operationalised," he said.

On the plight of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs, he said that the government could have done a lot more for reservation to them. The government is ‘dithering’ on this issue, he added.