06-26-2008, 04:16 AM
<b>BJP for strategic ties with United States</b>
Neena Vyas
But opposed to the nuclear deal, says Advani
If BJP comes to power, it will ârenegotiateâ nuclear deal
âIn 1960s itself Jana Sangh favoured India making nuclear bombâ
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is in favour of âstrategic relationsâ with the United States but is opposed to the nuclear deal with the U.S. because it does not want the countryâs right to conduct a nuclear test compromised, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani has said here .
Mr. Advani was speaking on the sidelines of a function where a booklet of the speeches made by Jana Sangh presidents was released by him and BJP president Rajnath Singh here .
It was the Jana Sangh which declared in the 1960s that it was in favour of the country making a nuclear bomb.
<b>Hyde Act</b>
If the BJP came to power it would ârenegotiateâ the deal to ensure that the objectionable Hyde Act would not come into play, he said.
Two days ago, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad asked the UPA government to take a âfinal callâ on the deal.
Informally, senior party leaders are saying that if the nuclear deal were to go through during the UPA regime, any BJP government that might follow âwould not rescindâ the deal. However, if a BJP-led government were to take power before a deal is finalised with the U.S., it would, as suggested by Mr. Advani, try to ârenegotiateâ the deal.
<b>WTO</b>
Party veterans pointed out that the BJP had talked of âwalking out of the World Trade Organisationâ if it were to come to power as it opposed India entering the World Trade Organisation during the Narasimha Rao regime. Now no one is talking about that, and nobody did when the party was in power for six years from 1998 to 2004, it was pointed out.
Neena Vyas
But opposed to the nuclear deal, says Advani
If BJP comes to power, it will ârenegotiateâ nuclear deal
âIn 1960s itself Jana Sangh favoured India making nuclear bombâ
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is in favour of âstrategic relationsâ with the United States but is opposed to the nuclear deal with the U.S. because it does not want the countryâs right to conduct a nuclear test compromised, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani has said here .
Mr. Advani was speaking on the sidelines of a function where a booklet of the speeches made by Jana Sangh presidents was released by him and BJP president Rajnath Singh here .
It was the Jana Sangh which declared in the 1960s that it was in favour of the country making a nuclear bomb.
<b>Hyde Act</b>
If the BJP came to power it would ârenegotiateâ the deal to ensure that the objectionable Hyde Act would not come into play, he said.
Two days ago, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad asked the UPA government to take a âfinal callâ on the deal.
Informally, senior party leaders are saying that if the nuclear deal were to go through during the UPA regime, any BJP government that might follow âwould not rescindâ the deal. However, if a BJP-led government were to take power before a deal is finalised with the U.S., it would, as suggested by Mr. Advani, try to ârenegotiateâ the deal.
<b>WTO</b>
Party veterans pointed out that the BJP had talked of âwalking out of the World Trade Organisationâ if it were to come to power as it opposed India entering the World Trade Organisation during the Narasimha Rao regime. Now no one is talking about that, and nobody did when the party was in power for six years from 1998 to 2004, it was pointed out.