By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Launching a nationwide campaign against the UPA government clubbing the nuclear deal and price rise, the Left parties accused the ruling combine of “failing” to address the problems of the ‘aam aadmi’ (the public) due to its “obsession” with the agreement.
The Left parties said they could not agree to the country becoming a “junior partner” to the US and withdrew support to the government as it moved ahead with the deal when the country was faced with price rise and inflation.
Attacking the government for moving ahead with the deal when in “minority”, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat took a potshot at the ruling party, saying ‘Congress ka Haath, America ke Saath’.
Karat said the Left will work to defeat the government on the trust vote and expects that more parties will join them in the struggle against the deal.
“The popularity of President George W Bush in US is 20-25 per cent. He is the President of a minority. We have a Prime Minister who is heading a minority government. A minority President and minority Prime Minister are trying to hook this country to US hegemony,” the senior CPI(M) leader said.
Claiming that the government and Congress want to fulfil their promise to Bush, he said, “it is their primary aim and not tackling inflation or price rise…The deal and price rise were the issues on which we withdrew support.” “We were tolerating them (UPA) because we did not want BJP and other communal forces to come to power,” he said.
In an apparent reference to Congress tie-up with Samajwadi Party, Karat said there is a party which is now supporting the government, but shared the dais with the Left sometime ago in opposing the deal.