Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: May 2, 2009
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/173402/Manmohan-Govt-mortaged-foreign-policy-for-Nuke-deal-CPI(M).html
Hitting back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
for his attack on the Left, the CPI(M) on Friday alleging his Government had
"mortgaged" India's foreign policy for Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
"Manmohan Singh Government has mortgaged
India's foreign policy for Indo-US nuclear deal," CPI(M) General Secretary
Prakash Karat told PTI from Madurai.
Further, he said the Government "has
given a commitment to buy 10,000 mega watts of American nuclear reactors,
which will cost the country not less than Rs two lakh eighty thousand crore."
This would "only enrich the American
corporations and make electricity beyond the reach of the common people",
he charged.
Party Politburo member Sitaram Yechury asked
why did the Government "spend tens of crores of rupees just for lobbying
in the US if it was only for meeting India's energy needs."
He said there was "another agenda which
the PM is not revealing and that is what we are objecting to. It is that almost
all our nuclear commerce has been tied up with the US and there are policy
pressures too."
"The Prime Minister does not explain
all this to the people. He should also explain how the strategic defence tie-up
with America helps us in getting electricity for the people," Yechury,
who is touring West Bengal, said.
