Monday, full of attack and counter-attack between the Prime Minister and the CPM leader Prakash Karat, eventually ended with the Dr. Manmohan Singh's statement that government is going to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) to complete the process of negotiations. The countdown for the civil nuclear deal begins from today on July 01, as there is hardly a week left to clear the fate of the government and the deal.
However, the Prime Minister offered to come to Parliament, once the negotiations process gets over, before the final operationalisation of the civilian nuclear deal with the United States.
“I have said it before. I will repeat it again that you allow us to complete the process. Once the process is over, I will bring it before Parliament and abide by the House,” he said to Left parties despite his hard stand on the nuclear deal to reconcile the latter.
Amidst continuous threat from the Left parties uncertainties were looming over the fate of nuclear deal whether the government would go ahead or hats over before the Left's obduracy, everybody was waiting for a statement from the Prime Minister. This was his first, but utmost needed comment during the ongoing stalemate with the Left.
If everything goes according to government’s plan, the uncertainty now is shifting from the fate of the nuclear deal, from India's side, to the fate of the UPA government. Because the Left is adamant to seek withdrawal of support, if the government goes ahead with the IAEA to conclude the process of completing nuclear deal with the U.S.
The tense day, however, ended with somewhat ease and soothing piece of information for the Congress as after the Samajwadi Party leaders sent signal that they were not against aligning the UPA over the issue, an instant meeting was held between the government's chief interlocutor on the nuclear deal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and the SP leader Amar Singh at the former's residence. However, the leaders were tight lipped and did not disclose the outcome of the meeting, but it is being believed that the two leaders discussed the future course of action in the wake of Left's withdrawal of support from the government.
If the UPA, Samajwadi Party's alliance comes into operation; the new coalition of the government would not mere an attempt to save the Union government from its fall, but the coalition would open a new chapter in the political history of Uttar Pradesh. Also, the unitary polarisation of power of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would alter to bi-polarisation with the Congress-SP alliance.
Congress, the first largest national party, is also in search of another regional party to help it in broaden and strengthen its base in the Uttar Pradesh. After BSP's parting ways, SP is the only and solely option. Dalit, which had to be the base of the Congress, gradually shifted from it and vowed their allegiance to the BSP. So the new coalition of OBCs-Muslims under the SP-Congress alliance would be the counter against the BSP's supremo Mayawati which has its hegemony over the dalits.
Earlier the exchange of words between Dr. Singh and Prakash Karat did concentrate on “nothing new in his stand.” First the Prime Minister said in his comment over the Left's Sunday meeting in which the party reiterated its older tone of pulling out support in the wake of UPA's forward locomotion to IAEA. And later, Karat sniffed over the PM statement by saying “nothing new in his stand.”
Karat said now the Left parties would not give mere threat and not wait for the formal intimation, but would withdraw support from the government if the Prime Minister puts the deal in his policy chart for the G8 summit, which is being held in Japan on July 8. A meeting of the Left parties on July 4 will ponder over the timing of the pulling out the support to the government, if the SP backs the UPA and the Congress decides to go for the deal.
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