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CPI(M) against changes in nuclear deal

Ludhiana: Asserting that the U.S. is deviating from the original parameters of the nuclear deal, the CPI (M) on Sunday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should ensure that the country should not accept any new conditions or changes to the deal that could harm national interests.

"We have a lot of doubts about the India-U.S. nuke deal and concerns about changes being made by the U.S. in it. We demand from the Prime Minister that India should not accept any changes in this deal which could be detrimental to the national interests or nuclear sovereignty," Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said here.

He said the U.S. had now imposed a fresh condition that India could not re-use or reprocess thorium extracted from the uranium.

"The condition that India will not have the right to reprocess thorium as a fuel for our scientific purposes is clearly a deviation made by the U.S. in the deal. If India accepts it, then we would wholly depend upon the U.S. and work as per the terms laid down by it." The Prime Minister should have the "sense of the House" on any change in the parameters of the deal.

"Stop arms purchase"

Mr. Yechury urged the Centre to immediately stop the purchase of weapons from Israel. "The buying of military equipment from Israel amounts to support for the killing of innocent people in Lebanon as a result of the war launched by Israel."

He also demanded a probe by the Enforcement Directorate against Reliance and Bhim Singh, named as beneficiaries of the Iraqi oil-for-food scam by the Volcker Committee. — PTI

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