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Congress MP defends Indo-U.S. pact

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BANGALORE: B.K. Hariprasad, MP and general secretary, All India Congress Committee, on Thursday defended the Indo-U.S. 123 agreement and said that the Congress wanted to generate nuclear power for the development of industries providing employment to the youth.

He was addressing Youth Congress workers at a membership drive organised by the Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee as part of the AIYCC programme here.

He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist parties were opposing the deal without realising the usefulness of the agreement to the country’s development.

Bold decision

Recalling the bold decisions taken by the former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi, who was instrumental in India’s first nuclear explosion at Pokhran facing sanctions from the U.S., he contrasted it with the National Democratic Alliance Government’s declaration of a self-moratorium on further blasts in 1998. He said that there was no need for the Congress to learn from the BJP how to be patriotic and also protect the sovereignty of the country.

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