By IANS
New Delhi : The Congress party said Saturday that there is no threat to the central government until the joint mechanism with the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal is functional and there is no violation of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) agreed upon by the two sides.
Congress spokesperson M. Veerappa Moily said here that the talk of any threat to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is premature.
He was responding to queries about Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Jyoti Basu’s reported statement in Kolkata that there is no question of compromising his party’s stand on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Moily said: “We are not ready to take any signal without a forum. The forum in this case is the CMP and the joint mechanism.”
He asserted, “The ball is in the court of the joint mechanism. They should come out with their verdict.”
Moily claimed that the Congress had not deviated from the CMP by proceeding on the Indo-US nuclear deal. “No principle laid out in the CMP has been violated. Let’s have a balance sheet of the CMP. They had our manifesto and wanted the government to continue. One cannot destabilise it like this. If the CMP is binding on the Congress, it is binding on them also,” he added.