By IANS
New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday denied that his government had in any way diluted the Indian stand on nuclear weapons taken by the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime.
Intervening briefly in the debate on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in the Lok Sabha, Manmohan Singh interrupted opposition leader L.K. Advani to say: “Our government has committed nothing more on nuclear tests than what your government did.
“There is nothing in this agreement which prevents India in exercising the right to tests,” he asserted.
Advani claimed credit for conducting Pokhran II nuclear tests in May 1998 and attacked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for caving in to pressures from the US over the country’s nuclear programme.