Left rebuke N-deal with US; warns UPA against tripartite axis

The assiduous weekend kept the Left leaders busy in attending programme, which served their dual purpose: first by showing their displeasure again over nuclear deal with America and secondly, by raising the question of Palestinians suffering at the hands of Israel and warned the UPA government to stay away from forming triple alliance with Israel and USA.

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CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat said the party would not accept any pressure to give the government go-ahead for the nuclear deal. “We can't follow the Bush administration’s time table,” he said when asked about the US deadline.

Karat was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting organised to commemorate the 60 years of ‘Nakba catastrophe’ on 15th June- the day when the establishment of the Israel caused the exodus of Palestinians form their homeland.

Karat, in his attempt to link the party's opposition to strategic alliance with the US to the cause of Palestine, said India needs to maintain distance from the tripartite alliance with America and Israel to support the Palestinian struggle.

He condemned the government for not following the Common Minimum Programme where it did not mention to indulge into any strategic ties with the Israel or the US. The government certainly not fulfilling what it said on paper.

‘The tripartite axis of US-Israel-India which had developed since 1990s with the visiting Home Minister L K Advani's concluding security and military alliance with Israel became strong in due course of time and provided nutrition under the four years rule of the UPA government, needs now to be infringed. We will continue our struggle and fight to break this axis,’ said the CPI-M leader.

Last week Karat said the party was not against the India specific safeguard with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) but it was against America with whom India wanted to make deal.

A day ago the CPI general secretary A B Bardhan revealed why USA wanted India as its strategic partner. It actually wants to make India as its permanent outpost to counterbalance China, he said.

“The U.S. wants a strategic partnership with India, it has a strategic aim. It wants India as an outpost in the region, a country that can counterbalance China. But we believe in world peace and disarmament. China and India have to live together. We do not believe in the balance of power politics.”

“Imperialism is an evil force in today’s world. We are all seeing how the U.S. is imposing its unilateral decisions on the rest of the world. Are we not seeing how it destroyed an old civilisation in Iraq? It is preventing Palestinians from achieving their homeland. And it is now threatening to wipe out Iran,” he stated.

Bardhan was speaking at a function on Saturday organised by the All India Youth Federation to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary of the veteran Cuban Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

BJP lambasts Left

The Bhartiya Janata Party condemned the Left by saying it China-centric. Ever since the question of the nuclear deal has come into existence, the Left has always been opposing deal only because of its solitary aim of protecting China's interests than our own national and strategic interests. Perhaps the Left has forgotten that it's not a Chinese but an Indian political party. The party should think the development of India, work to protect its strategic interests instead of applauding China.

Despite condemning the Left over the nuclear deal, the BJP president Rajnath Singh refuted to accept the deal in the present form.