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It is a coalition Government at the Centre: Sreemathy

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Cautions Government against nuclear deal with the U.S.

KASARAGOD: The Congress leadership seems to have forgotten the truth that the Union Government was a Congress-led coalition Government and not a Congress Government, Minister for Health P.K. Sreemathy has said.

Inaugurating the Nava Bharath March organised by the DYFI Kasaragod district committee here on Wednesday, Mrs. Sreemathi said the UPA Government’s approach on the issues of civil nuclear cooperation and military cooperation with the United States were leading to such a conclusion. The impudence with which the UPA Government neglected the opinions of Left parties regarding the proposed Indo-U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement showed that the Government was going all out to please the U.S., noted Mrs. Sreemathi. It seemed that the Union Government considered the opinions of U.S. policy makers as irrevocable orders, Mrs. Sreemathi added.

She warned that the people of the country would have to face ‘untold miseries’ if the Union Government signed an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation with the United States.

If the country signed such an agreement and entered into military cooperation with the U.S., the country’s sovereignty would be in danger, the Minister warned.

Congress has failed to lead the country through the path of progress even after ruling the country for more than 40 years, Mrs. Sreemathi said.

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