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Congress indulging in horse-trading: VS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has accused the Congress of indulging in horse-trading to secure support for the confidence motion to be tabled in Parliament on July 21-22.

In an article on the Indo-U.S. nuclear, Mr. Achuthanandan said the Congress leaders were going around States to secure support for the confidence motion and this might well result in the number of Indian States going up after the confidence vote. The Congress, he said, had already given up the Women’s Reservation Bill and might not talk about it again. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh destroyed the UPA-Left alliance to make the nation a slave of America, he added.

The Chief Minister said the Congress was raising the Chinese bogey as it had no answer to the questions being raised by the Left about the nuclear deal. The question why India cannot sign a nuclear deal with America when China has already done has no meaning because China had been acknowledged as a nuclear power by the U.S.

Secondly, there was nothing similar to the provision in the 123 Agreement that stipulates that laws to be passed by the American Congress would be applicable to India in the U.S.-Sino nuclear deal. The Congress was trying to cover such grave gaps in the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, he added.

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