Attacks on CPI(M) being stepped up to push N-deal: Karat

Fri, May 16 05:37 PM

New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) Maintaining that prospects of operationalising the nuclear deal as per the American deadline were fading away, the CPI(M) today said a "desperate" attempt was being made to urge the government to go ahead with it, ignoring the objections by the Left and the opposition. Observing that the US was facing "reverses" in Nepal and other South Asian countries with growing opposition to its moves, party General Secretary Prakash Karat said these have come at a time "when in India the opposition to the strategic alliance with the US has made progress with the success registered so far in blocking the Indo-US nuclear deal.

" As a consequence, he said the attacks on CPI(M) were being stepped up "as the prospects of the deal being operationalised as per the American deadline fade away." "A desperate attempt is being made to urge the government to go ahead with the nuclear deal ignoring the objections of Left parties and the entire opposition," Karat said in an article in the party organ 'People's Democracy'.

"One of the worn out charges resurrected" to discredit the CPI(M) stand and to favour the deal going ahead was the accusation that the major Left party, "the third largest in Parliament", was "acting at the behest of China", he said. In the article titled 'Nepal: Portents for South Asia', Karat said the US, as part of its "hegemonic designs", had planned to "wreck" the political process in the Himalayan nation to make it a democratic republic.

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