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Left welcomes Manmohan’s remarks

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NEW DELHI: The Left parties welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks on the India-U.S. nuclear deal made at the HT Leadership Summit on Friday.

Dr. Singh said that if the deal fell through he would be disappointed but life would move on. CPI(M) MP and Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said the government would proceed on the deal only after the joint committee, formed to evaluate ramifications of the deal, gave its opinion. “On the basis of the written agreement between the Left and the government, we will deliberate in the next meeting on October 22.”

CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan said the deal had never been the “end-all” of the government but that was what was being propagated in the recent few past weeks. “I have been saying that why do you want to sacrifice your own government at the altar of this nuclear deal. I think perhaps sobriety has returned,” he said.

It is a good thing that the government sees our point on the nuclear deal. It is very positive on their side to have given due consideration to the objections raised us,” D. Raja, MP and national secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) told The Hindu.

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