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Mukherjee said India had conveyed to the US that it could not work ‘within a specific time-frame’ to conclude the deal.
"I don't think so, because we want to have elections in due time (in 2009)," Mukherjee told a TV channel when asked about the possibility of early polls.
While noting that ‘many unforeseen things happen’ in coalition politics, he said, "but the things you have referred to are not unforeseen because the position of Left parties is well known to us."
He was responding to the threat issued by the Left parties of withdrawal of support if the government went ahead with operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"I do not visualise that anybody is thinking of early elections. None of the coalition partners or coalition supporters are talking of early elections," Mukherjee insisted.
"Nobody is talking of holding elections now. There is no talk of sacrificing the government for something," he said when asked if there was a debate in the Congress about whether the nuclear deal is worth sacrificing the government for.
The Left parties, which provide crucial outside support to the government, have lately hardened their stance against operationalisation of the deal, triggering speculation of early polls.
Asked about CPI general secretary A B Bardhan's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday threatening to withdraw support, Mukherjee said he had not seen the letter but only read about it in newspapers.
He, however, referred to the letter written by CPM general secretary Prakash Karat to him wherein the Communist leader had sought early meeting of the UPA-Left committee on the nuclear deal.
"There he (Karat) has simply stated that as per our arrangement we shall have to meet. 'We have read in newspapers that negotiations with IAEA are complete. So, kindly fix a meeting, preferably by March 15'," the External Affairs Minister said.
Downplaying the Left parties' threat, Mukherjee suggested that it was nothing new.
"Generally, I can say that they have all along maintained their position that if you proceed with civilian nuclear cooperation with the US, then they will have to withdraw support. It is decision of their policy-making bodies," he said.
What he means is no question of leaving the KURSI come what may. Country jaaye bhaad me.
I do not understand why the left parties keep on threatening our government. They cannot form a government. Their idealogy of governing is outdated and most of all, it leaves us to live with an empty pockets and fills our mind with a valueless idealogy. No doubt congress is dominated by Gandhi family but who has to be blamed for it? We are still incapable of forming a democratic government. All we are interested is in bringing down the governments, sometimes, even before their formation. It looks as if no one wants an United India as a co-partner in the governance of this world.
DO NOT BLAME THE COMMUNIST PRTIES. COMMUNISM IS THEIR PRINCIPLE. THEY ARE NOT HIDING IT, BUT HONESTLY STICKING TO IT. AT LEAST THANK THEM FOR SUPPORTING THE UPA GOVT. FOR THIS LNG. THE EAL THGS ARE NDA. THEY DON,T BELIEVE IN COMMUNISM, THEY HAVE DONT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH CAPITALIST USA. BUT JUST TO PUT THIS UPA GOVT. IN TROUBLE, THEY HAVE TO OPPOSE THIS GOVT. IF NDA SUPPOTRED THIS GOVERNMENT THEN, THEY DID NOT HAVE TO RELY ON COMMUNIST PARTIES. DON'T BLAME COMMIES FOR BELIEVING IN THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEY ARE THE NDA AND JANTA PARTY WHO ARE CHANGING COLORS FOR THEIR SELFISHNESS. JANTA PARTY, SHOW PERTONISM, SHOW HONESTY TO OUR COUNTRY AND SUPPORT THOS GOVT. ON THIS AND OTHER ISSUES. JUST DON'T TRY TO FOOL PEOPLE THET ARE NOT AS STUPID AS UOU THINK.
The existence of left parties is based on hate against America.They have even opposed computerisation in the 80's, because computers came from America.They blindly oppose anything and everything that involves America, regardless of national interest.
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