10-17-2007, 04:33 AM
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Professor Anupam Srivastava of Georgia University says it's now or never.
"If a Democrat regime comes into power, the non-proliferation lobby would successfully insert amendments and conditionalities that will be clearly unacceptable to Indian scientists," says Professor Srivastava, who has been closely associated with the agreement since its conception.
He laments that the deal is stuck after so much hard work.
"If you do a referendum in India on this deal it will win, if you do a vote in the parliament it will fall," he says.
These sentiments are echoed by Swadesh Chatterjee of the Indo-US Friendship Council, a group that lobbied hard for the deal. He says he feels "betrayed" by domestic politics in India.
<b>"I personally made 66 trips from North Carolina to Washington for this deal. I feel now the Indian government's credibility is at stake," </b>he says.Â
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7047662.stm
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Professor Anupam Srivastava of Georgia University says it's now or never.
"If a Democrat regime comes into power, the non-proliferation lobby would successfully insert amendments and conditionalities that will be clearly unacceptable to Indian scientists," says Professor Srivastava, who has been closely associated with the agreement since its conception.
He laments that the deal is stuck after so much hard work.
"If you do a referendum in India on this deal it will win, if you do a vote in the parliament it will fall," he says.
These sentiments are echoed by Swadesh Chatterjee of the Indo-US Friendship Council, a group that lobbied hard for the deal. He says he feels "betrayed" by domestic politics in India.
<b>"I personally made 66 trips from North Carolina to Washington for this deal. I feel now the Indian government's credibility is at stake," </b>he says.Â
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7047662.stm
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