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CPI(M) to step up campaign against deal

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KOTTAYAM: The Left will ask the United Progressive Alliance Government not to conclude the India-U.S. nuclear deal with the Bush administration, which would turn lame duck in a few months. “We would like the Government of India to initiate a comprehensive talk with the new administrative dispensation that would come to power in the U.S. after the coming presidential elections,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said on Monday.

Speaking at a seminar on ‘Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal: Truth and Illusion’ organised on the sidelines of the CPI(M) State conference here, Mr. Karat said the party would intensify its opposition to the deal, which envisaged a comprehensive, four-layered nuclear regime to usher in an era of 40 years of ‘nuclear blackmail’ against India.

On account of the strong position taken by the Left, the Prime Minister gave nine assurances to the nation in Parliament. And it was on the basis of these that the Left allowed the government to move ahead. However, with the enactment of the Hyde Act by the U.S. Congress, the assurances were nullified.

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