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Centre misled people: Yechury

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‘CPI(M) apprehensions proved correct’

Nedumbassery: Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, said here on Thursday that the U.S. was trying to bind India in an agreement much worse than the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT) with the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation deal.

He said the recent reports on a letter sent by the U.S. President to Senators suggested that all the apprehensions raised by the CPI(M) had proved to be correct.

Every single assurance that the Prime Minister had given to the party inside and outside Parliament on the issues of nuclear testing, uninterrupted fuel supply and full civilian technological cooperation proved not to be true, he said.

Reiterating that the government had been misleading Parliament on the nuclear issue, he demanded that the government explain to Parliament and the people why it misled them.

On Singur issue

To a query on the Singur issue, he expressed the hope that the Tatas would not be leaving the State and the negotiations which were already on would yield a positive result.

He said that Mamata Banerjee and her supporters were stalling the industrialisation of West Bengal and in the future, she would have to answer the people why she had been doing that.

To meet President

Staff Reporter writes from Kozhikode:

Inaugurating a seminar on ‘Nuclear deal and Electricity,’ organised by the Keluvettan Study Centre and the KSEB Officers Association in Kozhikode, Mr. Yechury said that the UPA government had no moral right to continue in power in the wake of reports of the clause in the nuclear deal that the U.S. government would cease nuclear cooperation with India if the latter conducted nuclear tests.

Mr. Yechury said the CPI(M) would meet the President and request her to convene Parliament soon.

T.P. Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) district secretary, presided. A.N. Prasad, former director of the Babha Atomic Research Centre, and C. Ravindranath, MLA, also spoke.

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