By IANS
New Delhi : With the India-US civilian nuclear deal becoming a major cause for political divide in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made no reference to it in his Independence Day address Wednesday.
His 35-minute speech from the Red Fort saw the prime minister touch upon a range of issues, but there was no mention of the controversial nuclear deal.
Foreign policy by itself found little mention in the address and no country – neither Pakistan nor the US – found any direct reference.
“India wants to have good relations with all the countries of the world – big and small,” is all that he said.
Even when he spoke of energy and said India needed to generate more electricity and distribute it more efficiently at affordable prices, he did not touch upon nuclear power, which he has described as environmentally the cleanest.