Is China more important to you than India: BJP asks Karat
New Delhi (PTI): Questioning the CPI(M)'s nationalist credentials, the BJP on Friday said its General Secretary Prakash Karat's comments on China shows that the interests of the Communist nation are supreme for it.
The saffron party also ridiculed the CPI(M)'s stand that it wants a discussion in Parliament on the Indo-US nuclear deal without voting saying the Left party is against voting as it did not want to be exposed.
"The comments of Prakash Karat finally exposes the sheer duplicity of the CPI(M) and establishes once and for all that for it the interests of China are primary and that of India secondary," party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
He also asked Karat to explain whether the "US capital which is coming to Kolkata loses its imperial colour after investment in the Left-ruled state." The double-standard is more than evident, he added.
Prasad was reacting to Karat's statement in Kolkata yesterday that the US was trying to make India its strategic ally to counter China, "the most powerful socialist country capable of challenging the might of the USA".
On CPI(M) favouring a debate in Parliament under a rule which will not entail voting, he said "they don't want voting as it will expose its real face. Their opposition to the deal is just a show."
"The CPI(M) will never snap its ties with the UPA," he went on to add and alleged that its opposition to the nuclear deal was not "committed."
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