09-04-2008, 01:37 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Opp outraged, seeks PM's scalp </b>
Pioneer.com
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The disclosure that the Bush Administration had conveyed to the US Congress that the India-US nuclear deal would be subjected to a set of stringent conditionalities imposed by Washington has created political upheaval in New Delhi. An outraged <b>BJP on Wednesday sought the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Left asked the Government to suspend further steps for operationalising the deal.</b>
With the Government not coming clean on the disclosure, which was kept under wraps for nine months and came just ahead of the crucial NSG meeting, the BJP said the Americans could not be blamed for misleading India since it was the Indian Government which "deliberately and knowingly" misled the people and the Parliament of India on the deal.
<b>"Whatever explanation the Government offers, it has now been exposed that it indulged in falsehood. The PM has no business to stay in office even for a single moment. He must resign," BJP vice-president and former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha told The Pioneer. </b>
With the Opposition baying for his blood, the Prime Minister held a late-night meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Adviser M K Narayanan to discuss the issues.
But he may have a hard time silencing the Opposition. <b>In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Sinha and former Union Minister Arun Shourie said there was no doubt any more that the nuclear deal did not contain any binding commitment by the US and others regarding fuel supplies and on transfer of technology, which this Government had been falsely proclaiming for the last three years. Moreover, it was clear that the deal would be terminated and all supplies stopped the moment India went ahead with nuclear tests and all materials supplied to it would have to be returned.</b>
"These conditionalities have been staring us in the face all along. Only the Manmohan Singh Government has been concealing them. The PM has given assurances to Parliament, which he knew were false. His Ministers and officials have indulged in a farce, which is unparalleled in our diplomatic and parliamentary history. Such a Government, which has survived in office on purchased votes of MPs, has no business to continue in office even for a day," the BJP said.
In a separate statement, the CPM Politburo said, "The Left parties had warned the UPA Government about the provisions in the notes submitted to the UPA-Left Coordination Committee, which have now been vindicated by this disclosure. Each of the commitments made by the Prime Minister in Parliament has been violated."
CPM leader Brinda Karat accused the Government of telling "lies" to the country over the nuclear deal while D Raja of the CPI said the Government had misled Parliament and the people of India.
The CPM said proceeding with the nuclear deal would "mortgage" India's sovereignty and make the country's civilian nuclear programme "vulnerable to US blackmail for the next 40 years".
The CPM Politburo said the 26-page correspondence between the US State Department and members of the American Congress has revealed that the US gave no binding fuel supply assurance to India. The party also noted that there was no US consent to India's stockpiling of lifetime fuel reserves for safeguard power reactors.
"The Government of India is partner to this great deception of the Indian people, which the Bush Administration has engineered because it knew exactly what it was doing," Karat told reporters. Karat alleged the Government would have preferred that the disclosures remain secret.
The BJP clarified that its opposition to the deal was fundamentally different from that of the Left parties and asserted that the future of this deal should not be decided by a President in the US and a Prime Minister in India who may not return to office. "The deal should be left to be renegotiated by future Governments in both the countries," the BJP demanded.
Clearly on the backfoot, the Congress chose to play down the "disclosures" on the deal as "internal communication" between the US Administration and the legislature. "What the US Administration and/or the US President communicates with the US Congress or a member of the US Congress is entirely their problem," Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said.
He said India was bound only by the terms of the 123 Agreement, which did not prohibit the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology, which is integral to the civil nuclear cooperation. The Congress spokesperson pointed out that in case India conducted a nuclear test, the 123 Agreement had provision for initiating consultations before taking any action.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
India wants removal of restrictions on all aspects of cooperation and technology transfers pertaining to civil nuclear energy, ranging from nuclear fuel, nuclear reactors, to reprocessing spent fuel. We will not agree to any dilution that would prevent us from securing the benefits of full civil nuclear cooperation.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
The United States rarely transfers dual-use items for sensitive nuclear activities to any cooperating party.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
Detailed fuel supply assurances by the US for the uninterrupted operation of our nuclear reactors are reflected in full in the 123 Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Should India detonate a nuclear explosive device, the United States has the right to cease all nuclear cooperation with India immediately, including the supply of fuel.
The fuel supply assurances are not...meant to insulate India against the consequences of a nuclear explosive test or a violation of non-proliferation commitments.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
I confirm that there is nothing in these agreements which prevents us from further nuclear tests if warranted by our national security concerns. All that we are committed to is a voluntary moratorium on further testing.
There is nothing in the Agreement that would tie the hands of a future Government or legally constrain its options to protect India's security and defence needs.
An elaborate multi-layered consultation process has been included with regard to any future events that may be cited as a reason by either party to seek cessation of cooperation or termination of the 123 Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Article 14 of the proposed US-India agreement for cooperation provides for a clear right for the US to terminate nuclear cooperation and a right to require the return of equipment and material subject to the agreement in all of the circumstances required under the Atomic Energy Act, including if India detonated a nuclear explosive device.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
India's right to take 'corrective measures' will be maintained even after the termination of the Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Until India has completed its safeguards agreement with the IAEA and the parameters of 'corrective measures' are known, we will not be in a position to speak definitively to the potential effect on other provisions of the proposed agreement.
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Now traitors who were promoting this deal are exposed now someone should follow money , How much money changed hands?
Pioneer.com
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The disclosure that the Bush Administration had conveyed to the US Congress that the India-US nuclear deal would be subjected to a set of stringent conditionalities imposed by Washington has created political upheaval in New Delhi. An outraged <b>BJP on Wednesday sought the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Left asked the Government to suspend further steps for operationalising the deal.</b>
With the Government not coming clean on the disclosure, which was kept under wraps for nine months and came just ahead of the crucial NSG meeting, the BJP said the Americans could not be blamed for misleading India since it was the Indian Government which "deliberately and knowingly" misled the people and the Parliament of India on the deal.
<b>"Whatever explanation the Government offers, it has now been exposed that it indulged in falsehood. The PM has no business to stay in office even for a single moment. He must resign," BJP vice-president and former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha told The Pioneer. </b>
With the Opposition baying for his blood, the Prime Minister held a late-night meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Adviser M K Narayanan to discuss the issues.
But he may have a hard time silencing the Opposition. <b>In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Sinha and former Union Minister Arun Shourie said there was no doubt any more that the nuclear deal did not contain any binding commitment by the US and others regarding fuel supplies and on transfer of technology, which this Government had been falsely proclaiming for the last three years. Moreover, it was clear that the deal would be terminated and all supplies stopped the moment India went ahead with nuclear tests and all materials supplied to it would have to be returned.</b>
"These conditionalities have been staring us in the face all along. Only the Manmohan Singh Government has been concealing them. The PM has given assurances to Parliament, which he knew were false. His Ministers and officials have indulged in a farce, which is unparalleled in our diplomatic and parliamentary history. Such a Government, which has survived in office on purchased votes of MPs, has no business to continue in office even for a day," the BJP said.
In a separate statement, the CPM Politburo said, "The Left parties had warned the UPA Government about the provisions in the notes submitted to the UPA-Left Coordination Committee, which have now been vindicated by this disclosure. Each of the commitments made by the Prime Minister in Parliament has been violated."
CPM leader Brinda Karat accused the Government of telling "lies" to the country over the nuclear deal while D Raja of the CPI said the Government had misled Parliament and the people of India.
The CPM said proceeding with the nuclear deal would "mortgage" India's sovereignty and make the country's civilian nuclear programme "vulnerable to US blackmail for the next 40 years".
The CPM Politburo said the 26-page correspondence between the US State Department and members of the American Congress has revealed that the US gave no binding fuel supply assurance to India. The party also noted that there was no US consent to India's stockpiling of lifetime fuel reserves for safeguard power reactors.
"The Government of India is partner to this great deception of the Indian people, which the Bush Administration has engineered because it knew exactly what it was doing," Karat told reporters. Karat alleged the Government would have preferred that the disclosures remain secret.
The BJP clarified that its opposition to the deal was fundamentally different from that of the Left parties and asserted that the future of this deal should not be decided by a President in the US and a Prime Minister in India who may not return to office. "The deal should be left to be renegotiated by future Governments in both the countries," the BJP demanded.
Clearly on the backfoot, the Congress chose to play down the "disclosures" on the deal as "internal communication" between the US Administration and the legislature. "What the US Administration and/or the US President communicates with the US Congress or a member of the US Congress is entirely their problem," Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said.
He said India was bound only by the terms of the 123 Agreement, which did not prohibit the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology, which is integral to the civil nuclear cooperation. The Congress spokesperson pointed out that in case India conducted a nuclear test, the 123 Agreement had provision for initiating consultations before taking any action.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
India wants removal of restrictions on all aspects of cooperation and technology transfers pertaining to civil nuclear energy, ranging from nuclear fuel, nuclear reactors, to reprocessing spent fuel. We will not agree to any dilution that would prevent us from securing the benefits of full civil nuclear cooperation.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
The United States rarely transfers dual-use items for sensitive nuclear activities to any cooperating party.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
Detailed fuel supply assurances by the US for the uninterrupted operation of our nuclear reactors are reflected in full in the 123 Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Should India detonate a nuclear explosive device, the United States has the right to cease all nuclear cooperation with India immediately, including the supply of fuel.
The fuel supply assurances are not...meant to insulate India against the consequences of a nuclear explosive test or a violation of non-proliferation commitments.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
I confirm that there is nothing in these agreements which prevents us from further nuclear tests if warranted by our national security concerns. All that we are committed to is a voluntary moratorium on further testing.
There is nothing in the Agreement that would tie the hands of a future Government or legally constrain its options to protect India's security and defence needs.
An elaborate multi-layered consultation process has been included with regard to any future events that may be cited as a reason by either party to seek cessation of cooperation or termination of the 123 Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Article 14 of the proposed US-India agreement for cooperation provides for a clear right for the US to terminate nuclear cooperation and a right to require the return of equipment and material subject to the agreement in all of the circumstances required under the Atomic Energy Act, including if India detonated a nuclear explosive device.
<b>PM in Parliament</b>
India's right to take 'corrective measures' will be maintained even after the termination of the Agreement.
<b>Bush Administration letter</b>
Until India has completed its safeguards agreement with the IAEA and the parameters of 'corrective measures' are known, we will not be in a position to speak definitively to the potential effect on other provisions of the proposed agreement.
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Now traitors who were promoting this deal are exposed now someone should follow money , How much money changed hands?