07-15-2008, 01:42 AM
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Pioneer.com
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The BJP on Monday rejected former President APJ Abdul Kalam and former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra's claim on the nuclear deal and said they did not have any new argument to support their stand.
BJP's national vice president Yashwant Sinha and Rajya Sabha member Arun Shourie - the architects of the party's campaign against the deal - said what 'great people' feel need not be always correct. "We also understand something about the deal. We can not be taken for a ride like many other learned persons," Sinha said here on Monday.
<b>Shourie revealed that Kalam called him up a few months back and wanted to have a tête-à -tête with him on the deal. "He was in favour of the deal. I enquired if he had any new argument to support his stand. I wanted to know from him what forced him to change his mind," </b>the former Union Minister said.
Shourie went on to add that Kalam was in favour of passing a domestic law to 'convince' and 'assure' people in India but he turned down the suggestion saying it would not be proper to hoodwink the countrymen.
The former Union Minister stopped short of criticising Kalam and said,<b> "Pata nahi Amar Singh aur Kalam saheb to kahan se ilham ho raha hai (we don't know from where Amar Singh and Kalam are getting divine messages). </b>Shourie, however, clarified that he was not questioning Kalam's knowledge.
<b>Yashwant Sinha said if Indian got into trouble a few decades from now, Kalam, Brajesh Mishra or many others would not be there to argue with the US or other parties involved in the deal that India should be bailed out because both had supported the deal. "Everything is on paper. Written words will hold waters and not what great people are saying today,"</b> Sinha said.
The Samajwadi Party had taken refuge in Kalam's statement that the deal was in national interest to make a turnaround and bail out the Congress-led UPA Government from a biggest political crisis it faced after coming to power. The BJP was also red faced after Brajesh Mishra, a close aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, supported the deal saying "it is as good as what we could have achieved".
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Pioneer.com
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The BJP on Monday rejected former President APJ Abdul Kalam and former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra's claim on the nuclear deal and said they did not have any new argument to support their stand.
BJP's national vice president Yashwant Sinha and Rajya Sabha member Arun Shourie - the architects of the party's campaign against the deal - said what 'great people' feel need not be always correct. "We also understand something about the deal. We can not be taken for a ride like many other learned persons," Sinha said here on Monday.
<b>Shourie revealed that Kalam called him up a few months back and wanted to have a tête-à -tête with him on the deal. "He was in favour of the deal. I enquired if he had any new argument to support his stand. I wanted to know from him what forced him to change his mind," </b>the former Union Minister said.
Shourie went on to add that Kalam was in favour of passing a domestic law to 'convince' and 'assure' people in India but he turned down the suggestion saying it would not be proper to hoodwink the countrymen.
The former Union Minister stopped short of criticising Kalam and said,<b> "Pata nahi Amar Singh aur Kalam saheb to kahan se ilham ho raha hai (we don't know from where Amar Singh and Kalam are getting divine messages). </b>Shourie, however, clarified that he was not questioning Kalam's knowledge.
<b>Yashwant Sinha said if Indian got into trouble a few decades from now, Kalam, Brajesh Mishra or many others would not be there to argue with the US or other parties involved in the deal that India should be bailed out because both had supported the deal. "Everything is on paper. Written words will hold waters and not what great people are saying today,"</b> Sinha said.
The Samajwadi Party had taken refuge in Kalam's statement that the deal was in national interest to make a turnaround and bail out the Congress-led UPA Government from a biggest political crisis it faced after coming to power. The BJP was also red faced after Brajesh Mishra, a close aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, supported the deal saying "it is as good as what we could have achieved".
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