N-deal an Attempt to Cap Strategic Partnership with US: CPI

The Hindu
Mar 24, 2008

Hyderabad (PTI): The Left Parties on Sunday accused the UPA government of trying "to cap" a strategic partnership with the United States by the Indo-US nuclear deal and willfully violating the Common Minimum Programme that commits it to pursue an independent foreign policy. "We are watching with deep concern the government's policies which, step by step, are leading to a close strategic partnership between India and the US. The nuclear deal is not just an innocent attempt to gain access to nuclear energy but an attempt to cap the strategic partnership," party General Secretary A B Bardhan said while inaugurating the party's 20th National congress here. Referring to the recent negotiations with International Atomic Energy Agency on India-specific Safeguards Agreement, he said, we have no problems with the safeguard agreement, our problem is with the Indo-US nuclear agreement.