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Manmohan must fulfil all assurances: Yechury

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“Draft NSG waiver was in conformity with the Hyde Act”

Welcomes Pranab Mukherjee’s statement
Hopes government would stick to the nine assurances given to the party

BANGALORE: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said that it was clear from Saturday’s developments that the draft Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) waiver was in conformity with the Hyde Act and that the objections of the party to the nuclear deal was valid.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 84th birth anniversary of CPI(M) leader S. Suryanarayana Rao, Mr.Yechury welcomed the statement of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that India could not accept prescriptive conditionalities. He hoped that the government would stick to the nine assurances given to the party in the Rajya Sabha by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. No assurance should be violated, he added.

On the unprecedented unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr.Yechury said that it had serious consequences for the unity and integrity of the country. The Amarnathji Shrine Board land issue could be solved amicably, if the Prime Minister took a sincere initiative by calling both parties for talks, separately.

The CPI (M) leader blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party and the RSS for arousing passions leading to violence in Jammu while holding Muslim fundamentalists responsible for the protests in the Kashmir valley.

In West Bengal, he said it was a grand alliance of these fundamentalist forces with the Trinamool Congress and the Congress supported by the corporate media to create confusion on the Singur land issue. The RSS and the Muslim fundamentalist forces always joined hands, when it came to countering the CPI(M), he added.

Mr. Yechury said he was sure that West Bengal should industrialise, if it wanted to develop and provide employment to the people and improve their living conditions. He chided the Trinamool Congress for launching a partisan agitation, in order to gain electorate advantage in the State. Mr. Ratan Tata should not withdraw from the State falling prey to such tactics, he urged.

He said the Tatas had been given a little over 1,000 acres, but 10,000 owners were claiming compensation, which spoke of the fragmentation of the land from which they could not get any benefit. Instead, if the State was industrialised, the people would get jobs without which there was no future.

About the party’s agitation against price rise, he said that it had demanded the Union government to raise the number of essential commodities such as rice, wheat and edible oil to 25 from eight in which futures trading should be banned as this was responsible for speculation and hoarding. Mr. Yechury, who also headed the joint parliamentary committee on airports, said the old airports in Bangalore and Hyderabad should be re-opened for use by ATRs.

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