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RAJKOT: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday reiterated his confidence that the nuclear deal with the United States would reach a “positive conclusion.” Talking to journalists after addressing election rallies in Surat and Rajkot, he agreed that some political parties were opposed to the deal but said he had confidence in people. As more and more people realised the deal’s beneficial aspects, it would reach a “positive conclusion.” Dr. Singh said the government still had “miles to go” as it was yet to get the nod from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group. He described the deal as an “honourable agreement. Vinay Kumar reports from New Delhi: The Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded that the United Progressive Alliance government not proceed with the deal as the majority in Parliament was not in favour of the pact. “There is no question of [our] being soft on the deal. We are again saying do not go ahead with it; Parliament’s majority is not with it,” Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member, told reporters. The Communist Party of India (CPI), while urging the government to heed the sense of the House, said the government stood “totally isolated in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.” Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, L.K. Advani, said the debate exposed the isolation of the Congress on the issue. Mr. Advani, who was addressing a press conference at the end of the winter session of Parliament, said that even the UPA’s allies put up only an “indifferent, half-hearted defence of the deal.” He regretted that the discussion was not permitted under the rule that entailed voting. “No consensus”Referring to the 2005 joint statement and Dr. Singh’s comment at a joint press conference in Washington that Parliament was sovereign and he would go by the broad national consensus on the deal, Mr. Advani said the government must not take the next step. For, the debate had failed to bring about consensus.
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