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NEW DELHI: A debate on the nuclear deal with the United States will take place in Parliament on or after November 27. This was decided by political party leaders on Thursday. Well before the debate, the government expects some breakthrough at the Friday meeting of the United Progressive Alliance-Left committee on the deal. It is learnt that the Congress worked out a strategy for the meeting at its core committee gathering at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence on Thursday. Highly placed sources in the party said the core committee worked out a timetable to take forward the India-specific safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency in the event of a “positive outcome” at Friday’s meeting. The expectation is that the Left will agree to an earlier UPA proposal to allow the government to go to the IAEA, provided no document is finalised and signed. The core committee meeting was attended, among others, by party president Sonia Gandhi, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Minister of State Prithviraj Chavan. BJP meetingAt a meeting of the BJP’s core parliamentary group on Thursday, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani briefed his colleagues on the 20-minute meeting with Dr. Singh on Wednesday night at the residence of the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A member of the core group told The Hindu that Mr. Advani conveyed to Dr. Singh the BJP’s main concern over further nuclear testing. If Indira Gandhi gave India Pokhran-I and Mr. Vajpayee Pokhran-II, could there be a Pokhran- III after the nuclear deal? This was what Mr. Advani wanted to know. The BJP was not convinced that the deal would not close India’s future testing options. Hence, it would oppose the deal, party leader Sushma Swaraj said. She pointed out that a one-day debate would not give the members enough time to speak on the important and complicated subject. “We need at least two days.” Another senior leader V.K. Malhotra said the BJP wanted a debate and agreed to the dates proposed by the government. At the meetings of the Business Advisory Committees of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the dates were decided keeping in mind the availability of Dr. Singh, as the Opposition wanted him to respond to the debate. In all likelihood, the debate will be held under a non-substantive motion that does not entail a vote. Even the BJP, which was seeking a debate under a substantive motion, is now reconciled to the fact that no other party is pressing this.
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