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Nuke deal worries BJP, not Uma
REACTING TO the formation of a separate political party by expelled leader Uma Bharti, former BJP president Dr Murli Manohar Joshi made it clear on Sunday that she was not a problem for the party at all.
REACTING TO the formation of a separate political party by expelled leader Uma Bharti, former BJP president Dr Murli Manohar Joshi made it clear on Sunday that she was not a problem for the party at all.
“The problems before the party are some wrong policies of the UPA government, taking the nation on the path of devastation. The nuclear deal of India with the US initiated by the UPA government is against the interest of the nation” he said, adding that it was against the sovereignty of India which the BJP would not tolerate at all.
Talking to mediapesons here at the BJP office on Sunday afternoon, Dr Joshi criticised the UPA government for its nuclear deal with the US. Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh had issued a public statement on July 18 last year in which he had said that the country would have a nuclear deal with the US under which the US would provide uranium and nuclear reactors for nuclear programme .
“At that time, I had opposed the deal, mentioning clearly that the US wanted to restrict our nuclear programme in the name of this deal, adversely affecting the autonomy of our nuclear scientists”, Dr Joshi said.
Dr Joshi demanded that the Prime Minister make it public whether the nuclear deal was in accordance with his statement of July 18. China and Pakistan were exempted from ban on nuclear testing while India was not. The BJP would take up the matter in Parliament in the coming session, he said.
In response to a query about the by-election in Rae Bareli, he said that party candidate Vinay Katiyar was in the fray seriously. Expressing his serious concern over the food security of the nation, he said the government was succumbing to US pressure and multinationals as a fallout of which the US and its companies would supply genetically modified food to India. Farming and food security of India were in peril and the government should take serious note of it ,otherwise, the country would have to import food.
