http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Left_plays_hardball_on_IAEA_talks/articleshow/2321246.cms
The Central Government’s proposed setting up of a Committee to address the Left’s concerns on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, comprising representatives of the Left as well as all the partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), is the right step in the right direction. The Committee will have a Convenor and will submit its findings before fifth September when the nuclear issue is expected to be debated in Parliament. The move once again highlights the Government’s patience towards an obdurate Left and upholds democratic credentials of the Manmohan Singh cabinet.
The Left’s assertion, that the Committee mechanism was acceptable to them only if the government formally declared that it would not go in for negotiating nuclear safeguards that will be the basis to deal with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), was only to be expected. After all, in its perception, the Left is exercising opposition through democratic means when it had the option to resort to its usual practice of street politics. The Left is not wrong to expect the country and Manmohan Singh Government to be grateful to it for the ‘hold on operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal’ and its reasonable stance on the issue. It would also not be out of order for the country to thank the Left for rigidly sticking to its August 20 Resolution of opposing the Government on the ‘Deal’. Going by the well established behavioral pattern of the Left, the country would do well to expect the Left to reject the findings of the Committee and continue its opposition to all future initiatives of the Manmohan Singh Government.
The Left all along insisted the government press the ‘pause button’ on the Indo-US nuclear deal. It is time the nation pressed the ‘mute button’ on the Left. But then, that would eradicate the difference between the Left and the rest of this great country
The Central Government’s proposed setting up of a Committee to address the Left’s concerns on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, comprising representatives of the Left as well as all the partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), is the right step in the right direction. The Committee will have a Convenor and will submit its findings before fifth September when the nuclear issue is expected to be debated in Parliament. The move once again highlights the Government’s patience towards an obdurate Left and upholds democratic credentials of the Manmohan Singh cabinet.
The Left’s assertion, that the Committee mechanism was acceptable to them only if the government formally declared that it would not go in for negotiating nuclear safeguards that will be the basis to deal with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), was only to be expected. After all, in its perception, the Left is exercising opposition through democratic means when it had the option to resort to its usual practice of street politics. The Left is not wrong to expect the country and Manmohan Singh Government to be grateful to it for the ‘hold on operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal’ and its reasonable stance on the issue. It would also not be out of order for the country to thank the Left for rigidly sticking to its August 20 Resolution of opposing the Government on the ‘Deal’. Going by the well established behavioral pattern of the Left, the country would do well to expect the Left to reject the findings of the Committee and continue its opposition to all future initiatives of the Manmohan Singh Government.
The Left all along insisted the government press the ‘pause button’ on the Indo-US nuclear deal. It is time the nation pressed the ‘mute button’ on the Left. But then, that would eradicate the difference between the Left and the rest of this great country
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I cannot say with absolute conviction whether the left is playing a purely political game. I am happy that Indian Democracy has place, even for their opinion.
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