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19 August 2006, 04:08
Onus on PM to inform Parliament: Left
- New Delhi: Satisfied with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance to take Parliament into confidence before striking final Indo-US nuclear deal, the Left leaders, while hailing it as ''sense of the House'', said the onus now lay on him to keep the elected representatives informed from time to time.
However, the CPI asked for more ''vigilance'' on the part of the supporting Left parties in the context of what happened in relations with Iran after July 2005 understanding between Singh and US President George W. Bush.
While CPM Politbureau member and Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury said it was a new precedent that the Parliament would be taken into confidence by the executive, CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said that the Left had to be more vigilant about the ''subtle and not so subtle moves of the Bush administration to impose its ‘diktats’ on the Indian government''.
The leaders of the Forward Bloc and RSP said the Left parties were ''somewhat satisfied'' with the Prime Minister's response to their fears and apprehensions on nine serious departures, but now it was for him to honour his commitment given on the floor of the House.
At a press conference inside the Parliament House complex, Yechury also released a two-page note detailing the UPA government's nine departures and the Prime Minister's response point-by-point whether the deal would give ''full'' civilian nuclear technology, non-acceptance of restrictions on Indian foreign policy and signing of IAEA safeguards in perpetuity, among other things.
Asserting that India would not accept any extraneous conditions, the Prime Minister told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the government would draw the ''necessary conclusions'' if the Indo-US civil nuclear deal did not strictly adhere to the July 18, 2005, and the March 2, 2006 separation plan.
- New Delhi: Satisfied with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance to take Parliament into confidence before striking final Indo-US nuclear deal, the Left leaders, while hailing it as ''sense of the House'', said the onus now lay on him to keep the elected representatives informed from time to time.
However, the CPI asked for more ''vigilance'' on the part of the supporting Left parties in the context of what happened in relations with Iran after July 2005 understanding between Singh and US President George W. Bush.
While CPM Politbureau member and Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury said it was a new precedent that the Parliament would be taken into confidence by the executive, CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said that the Left had to be more vigilant about the ''subtle and not so subtle moves of the Bush administration to impose its ‘diktats’ on the Indian government''.
The leaders of the Forward Bloc and RSP said the Left parties were ''somewhat satisfied'' with the Prime Minister's response to their fears and apprehensions on nine serious departures, but now it was for him to honour his commitment given on the floor of the House.
At a press conference inside the Parliament House complex, Yechury also released a two-page note detailing the UPA government's nine departures and the Prime Minister's response point-by-point whether the deal would give ''full'' civilian nuclear technology, non-acceptance of restrictions on Indian foreign policy and signing of IAEA safeguards in perpetuity, among other things.
Asserting that India would not accept any extraneous conditions, the Prime Minister told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the government would draw the ''necessary conclusions'' if the Indo-US civil nuclear deal did not strictly adhere to the July 18, 2005, and the March 2, 2006 separation plan.