By IANS
New Delhi : Senior Congress leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi, met late Monday night to discuss the Indo-US nuclear deal and the Left parties’ objections to it, and are believed to have decided to go ahead with talks with the UN atomic agency.
The Congress core group, including External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A.K. Antony, met at the prime minister’s residence after the Left warned the government not to go ahead with planned talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on a safeguards agreement on the nuclear deal.
The core group meeting comes a day ahead of the 15-member joint panel of the United Progressive Alliance and Left parties meeting on Tuesday to examine the nuclear deal.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo will meet on Oct 18 and according to sources, may decide on that day on whether to continue supporting the UPA government.