By Prensa Latina,
New Delhi : India’s leftwing on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s request to complete the process allowing to sign a nuclear deal with the United States, to then bring the issue back to Parliament.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) warns that finishing those procedures would mean a consummate event, as the only step left would be the vote in the US Congress.
Singh asked for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) security guarantees; to then have the consent of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
The CPI-M, the Indian Parliament’s third largest political force and leader of the Leftwing Front, recalls that the government of the United Progress Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress Party (CP) already negotiated the letter of a deal with the IAEA.
But it noted the project has not been analyzed by the UPA-LF Committee that studies the nuclear agreement with the US as it had been agreed, nor it had been made public or debated in Parliament.
The CPI-M stressed the prime minister’s proposal “only reveals the obsession to accomplish the commitment with President George W. Bush in July 2005.”