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Antony sees win on Tuesday

Thiruvananthapuram: Defence Minister and Congress Working Committee member A.K. Antony on Sunday said the United Progressive Alliance would win Tuesday’s confidence vote.

Speaking to journalists here, Mr. Antony lashed out at the Left parties for being prepared to “associate with any devil” to pull down the UPA government. The party was trying to dislodge the UPA government and hand over the reins to communal forces. It would regret this action later.

Mr. Antony said the Congress would not take any action that would undermine the country’s independent foreign policy. He deplored the Left parties’ propaganda in this regard. The campaign that the India-U.S. nuclear agreement was anti-Muslim was unfortunate. India badly needed nuclear energy to meet power shortages it was facing now.

India’s stand on the Iran issue had not changed. The country would oppose any attempt by the U.S. to take military action against Iran. “The government was not prepared to jettison its ties with traditional friends,” he said.

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