CPI(M) slams PM's bid to push N-deal

The CPI(M) blamed Manmohan Singh for the prevailing political crisis saying his "renewed bid" to go to the IAEA was the main reason.

The CPI(M) squarely blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the prevailing political crisis saying his "renewed bid" to go to the IAEA to seek its approval for the safeguards agreement to operationalise the Indo-US nuclear deal was the main reason.

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Observing that the country was "plunged into a political crisis once again", party General Secretary Prakash Karat said the cause for this ongoing crisis "lies squarely in the Prime Minister's renewed bid to go to the IAEA" to get the agreement approved.

He said the schedule set by the US was "impelling the Prime Minister to go ahead regardless of the consequences".

In an article in the forthcoming issue of CPI(M) organ 'People's Democracy', he maintained that the urgency to approach the Board of Governors of IAEA "runs contrary" to the understanding arrived at in November 2007 between Congress and the Left leaderships that the government would go to the IAEA for talks but not proceed to get the Board's approval.

"The Bush administration knows very well that there is no time for the 123 Agreement to be passed by the current US Congress," he said.