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Pioneer.com
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
<b>'Left has two choices - save nation or Govt'</b>
Jan Morcha leader and former Prime Minister VP Singh on Sunday joined the brigade against the Indo-US nuclear deal and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He also asked the Left parties to withdraw their support to the UPA Government "in national interests".
Singh, who has been supporting the Congress-led UPA Government since its inception on several issues, has been criticising the proposed civil nuclear deal for the last one week. On Sunday, he mounted a campaign against the Prime Minister.
"When it is clear that the majority of members of Parliament are against the deal on which he has staked his name, I am sure, his conscience will dictate the Prime Minister to resign," Singh told the media.
The Mandal messiah, who had once raised alarm in the country over Bofors defence deal, said on further clarification, "Manmohan Singh should resign." Saying that the "Cabinet constitutes of PM's own chosen men", the former Prime Minister said, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was ignoring the opinion of the majority of MPs.
<b>"If the Prime Minister cannot renegotiate the deal, then he should terminate it," </b>he said and added," if he cannot do even this, then we will have to find a Prime Minister who would do so."Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had earlier said that there was no scope for "renegotiating" the deal.
This is the first time, VP Singh who is close to the Left and many of the UPA partners, has come out in open to ask for PM's resignation.
The Jan Morcha leader alleged that the Prime Minister did not answer any of the queries put up by either the Left or other political parties.
"I have also written a letter to the Prime Minister but did not get any reply," he said.
<b>VP Singh also attacked the Left parties for not pressing the debate on Indo-US nuclear deal under rule 184 that allows voting. </b>
"The hard fact is that the choice has to be made (by the Left) whether we save the country or we save the Government," he asked the Left leaders who had said that there was no threat to the Government.
<b>"Left parties should withdraw the support," </b>he said, adding that if the Left did not withdraw the support from the UPA Government, the "credibility of the Left would be in question.
Singh said that he would talk to CPI (M) chief Prakash Karat on Monday.
<b>"Having declared that the present Government has not taken care of the "national interests" then it would be inconsistent to support such a Government,"</b> he told the Left parties.
Entering into polemical debate with the Left for the first time, the former Prime Minister said, "What is the use of mass campaign against the deal, once the deal is already signed."
Raising a doubt over the intention of the UPA Government, VP Singh said that it was more urgent to act now because, in its remaining tenure, this Government could enter into contracts on advance for import of nuclear plants and uranium from the US and commit country heavily making difficult for the future Governments to terminate the agreement.
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Pioneer.com
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
<b>'Left has two choices - save nation or Govt'</b>
Jan Morcha leader and former Prime Minister VP Singh on Sunday joined the brigade against the Indo-US nuclear deal and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He also asked the Left parties to withdraw their support to the UPA Government "in national interests".
Singh, who has been supporting the Congress-led UPA Government since its inception on several issues, has been criticising the proposed civil nuclear deal for the last one week. On Sunday, he mounted a campaign against the Prime Minister.
"When it is clear that the majority of members of Parliament are against the deal on which he has staked his name, I am sure, his conscience will dictate the Prime Minister to resign," Singh told the media.
The Mandal messiah, who had once raised alarm in the country over Bofors defence deal, said on further clarification, "Manmohan Singh should resign." Saying that the "Cabinet constitutes of PM's own chosen men", the former Prime Minister said, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was ignoring the opinion of the majority of MPs.
<b>"If the Prime Minister cannot renegotiate the deal, then he should terminate it," </b>he said and added," if he cannot do even this, then we will have to find a Prime Minister who would do so."Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had earlier said that there was no scope for "renegotiating" the deal.
This is the first time, VP Singh who is close to the Left and many of the UPA partners, has come out in open to ask for PM's resignation.
The Jan Morcha leader alleged that the Prime Minister did not answer any of the queries put up by either the Left or other political parties.
"I have also written a letter to the Prime Minister but did not get any reply," he said.
<b>VP Singh also attacked the Left parties for not pressing the debate on Indo-US nuclear deal under rule 184 that allows voting. </b>
"The hard fact is that the choice has to be made (by the Left) whether we save the country or we save the Government," he asked the Left leaders who had said that there was no threat to the Government.
<b>"Left parties should withdraw the support," </b>he said, adding that if the Left did not withdraw the support from the UPA Government, the "credibility of the Left would be in question.
Singh said that he would talk to CPI (M) chief Prakash Karat on Monday.
<b>"Having declared that the present Government has not taken care of the "national interests" then it would be inconsistent to support such a Government,"</b> he told the Left parties.
Entering into polemical debate with the Left for the first time, the former Prime Minister said, "What is the use of mass campaign against the deal, once the deal is already signed."
Raising a doubt over the intention of the UPA Government, VP Singh said that it was more urgent to act now because, in its remaining tenure, this Government could enter into contracts on advance for import of nuclear plants and uranium from the US and commit country heavily making difficult for the future Governments to terminate the agreement.
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