Good sense prevailed. Yes, thats the way, it should have been. many people in india do oppose any kind of defence allience with US. It will only lead to destabilizing the subcontinent. This is the reason why Nuclear Deal didnt come true. As rightly acknowledged by lawmaker, if it was purely energy deal where both contries benefited, then there wouldnt be this kind of opposition. US Lawmakers ignored the bargaining power of Indian diplomacy & also awereness present in India. UR tried to fool the intelectuals of India through the mouthpiece of NRI's as well as Old Congressmen by saying Nuclear Deal is what thats going to save India and had numerous hidden agenda. They did failed to understand the awereness present back home. If they tone down and come back and sell a simple energy deal without any hidden motives and simply a sound business partnership,which benefits both countries, it will work..
RE:well said, MR Lawmaker
by MOHAN PYARE on Oct 23, 2007 10:18 AM Permalink
What sort of opposition you are talking about Mr.Harish? Opposition is mainly from the left parties who represent less than 5% of the Indian electorate.
RE:well said, MR Lawmaker
by deepak on Oct 23, 2007 10:28 AM Permalink
what awareness??? a nation that wallows on idiotic socialism that shackled its entrepreneur spirit for 5 decades..a nation that was content with a 3% growth rate..is anything but an aware nation..this is why this nation bred a bunch of idealistic commies who continues to preach paranoia of US domination which is thousands of miles away but overlooks 140 jihadi units next door that blows up trains and shrines regularly..you call this awareness????
RE:well said, MR Lawmaker
by Ashutosh Kole on Oct 23, 2007 11:44 AM Permalink
Very well said. Its mostly the NRIs who are with the deal. Majority of Indians do not want any strategic closeness with the US. We all know what the closeness will lead to. We dont want to become another puppet state of US but unfortunately, the NRIs will find it hard to understand as they have the wasted interest in US
Justifying the unjustifiable!!: Now Karat has come out with a book on the nuclear deal in an attempt to hide his aggressive pro-China stance. The left-wing newspaper 'The Hindu' has publised a review on it today. See: http://www.hindu.com/br/2007/10/23/stories/2007102350021300.htm. INTERSTINGLY, it was this very same newspaper which had published an Editorial, a Cartoon (showing PM as Houdini) and articles praising the N-Deal when it was finalised. But all that changed and it quickly backtracked once China's "People's Daily" wrote some harsh articles criticising the deal.
RE:Prakash Karat's Book on N-Deal
by mike mike on Oct 23, 2007 10:44 AM Permalink
'The Hindu' has always been a stooge of the communists and China. They advocate stupid policies of the left even though they know these are inimical to India.They also deride hindus and BJP on prompting from the left.Mr.N.Ram, editor is well known for his anti Hindu rhetoric. 'The Hindu" is actually anti Hindu
So far so good, Other party also understood the errors in the process. As siad earlier, our 'left' held on to their observations and all the interested parties came to their senses to renegotiate the deal taking into account the hard realties of Indian democratic systems and not in the interest of only creamy layers.
On the first day Dr. Manmohan Singh started to work against Indian people. How?
On Sept. 30, 2004, The Planning Commission dissolved all the 19 consultative committees in a bid to end the controversy over the presence of foreign experts from World Bank and Mc Cancy as business consultants, when the Left parties taken a stern stand.
Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister signed a defense agreement with the US on July 2005.
July 18 2005 Held India-US Joint Press Conference.
U.S.-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative Board included retail giant Wal-Mart and Monsanto members India-US agreed on agricultural collaborative research projects which is against Indian farmers.
Signed in crores of arms deals.
UPA government left their free foreign policy and voted two times in IAEA against Iran, even they have mentioned a free foreign policy in Common Minimum Programme.
Manmohan Singh accepted Condalesa Rice's warning on review non-aligned treaty and implement globalization.
Four Left parties suspended the UPA-Left coordination committee on share selling of Navratna PSUs. Then Sonia Gandhi made it cleared that it is halted.
Even then they have started to sell the shares of Nalco, Orissa and Lignite Corporation, Tamilnadu. Left and DMK's massive strikes were fruitful. DMK was ready to recall their ministers from Union Cabinet.
After Left's opposition in Pension Fund privatisation and 49% FDI in insurance sector could not implement till today.
RE:On the first day Dr. Manmohan Singh started to work against Indian people. How?
by Sachin on Oct 23, 2007 10:18 AM Permalink
You are a dedicated Commie man, I appreciate you for that. I have seen your posts earlier also, would have been much better if you were born in the times of Marx or Lenin/Trotsky. You would have made some contribution to soceity then. But sadly you commies still live in those era and do not go beyond the written word of Marx. SKK, your tribe is surely well past its sell-by-date, but great wonder (and dismay!!) that you are still thriving in India.
RE:On the first day Dr. Manmohan Singh started to work against Indian people. How?
by deepak on Oct 23, 2007 10:32 AM Permalink
send KK to the Gulag with his commie buddies..he needs more vodka & mao tai.
RE:On the first day Dr. Manmohan Singh started to work against Indian people. How?
by Sahadevan KK on Oct 23, 2007 01:30 PM Permalink
A Prime Minister for 'Resignation', who does not work for Indians and tries to tide us to the U.S. Read my blog on http://sahadevan.wordpress.com/ http://www.geocities.com/kksahadevan/
Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise for India.Solar and wind energy is abundant in India, will sustain our civilization eternally, improve rural energy supplies with distributed energy sources, provide more rural employment, free high quality electric grid supplies for concentrated urban and industrial loads, will open investment in this area in India my the mid-East countries who will run out of their oil shortly,will provide less risky and environmental friendly,save us from frequent price fluctuations of imported fuels and assure stable priced end use energy supplies, provide us energy security. It is easer to target or sabotage or lose in natural disaster one large nuclear power plant than thousands of small alternative natural and renewable energy supply units scattered over countryside and based on solar , wind, bio-mass and cow-dung. A well knit network of voluntary NGOs with more unified voice should launch a nationwide campaign towards this end. There is no point in involving big companies selling finished alternative energy products (except in solar photovoltaics)at unaffordable prices. we need small industries with shared technologies to produce standard quality components with which the rural masses can assemble their own units. Don't subsidize imported fuel, but invest in capital goods and logistics to help the rural population to work out and maintain its own community power solutions with good simple alternative energy technologies.
RE:Bush blunder in selling nuclear deal. Blessing in disguise
by jay krishnan on Oct 23, 2007 11:27 AM Permalink
Very well analyzed and stated Rajan. Let's hope enough rational thinking Indians ( which is a scarce commodity these days) will read this post.
The deal will be done. If not today then tommorrow. Indians are solidly behind this deal with the US. Leftists may put a spanner in it temprarily, but they also know that they cant prevent it.
Enough message has gone to the world that Democratic India cannot be taken for granted by anyone including the Indian government. Let it be the end to it.
May better sense prevail on the leftists and they accept as fait-accompli.
RE:Indo-US Nuclear Deal
by jay krishnan on Oct 23, 2007 11:32 AM Permalink
Actually, It's a wonder that crackos like you are not being burnt alive. Ofcourse, you sensitive nitwits are passing comments by sitting outside your birth country. And there you will be freezing yourselves alive.
A good assessment in the report. It is now easy for the U.S. to remove the relavant clauses which link conditions and restrictions on the defence area and concentrate only on energy production as a commercial venture.
Left has to understand the energy security of the country is very important. For that we have to play good international politics. We all have to support good and cleany energy needs of the country to spare us from global warming catastrophe. We cannot depend upon crude as our main supply. We have to embrace clean technology. In this direction nuclear energy, wind energy all are very important. the left have to change its view point and come around the energy security of the country instead of simply looking at it as US hegemony or bullying. We hope finally good sense will prevail. Let the PM fulfill his dreams for a stronger country with energy and strategic alliances.
RE:left hasnt been, and isnt right
by rahesh kumar on Oct 23, 2007 10:20 AM Permalink
Left has only stalled progress with their stupid ideology but also discouraged investments ........... not only west bengal , but Kerala too which was raped bny the left and still continuing to do so by the current left Govt, which is full of illeterates
RE:left hasnt been, and isnt right
by jay krishnan on Oct 23, 2007 11:36 AM Permalink
You guys need to learn a lot about the quality of life of people in WB and Kerala before you can shoot your mouth off most learnedly. Mere presence of huge industries with few people mainly foriegners making shit loads of money to take home to their families while using up the native state resources and increasing local pollution and thus effecting the health of local people and doling out a few coins to the native workers and keep them uninformed nor make them part of management or strategy or profit sharing, while the spoils are shared by a select few with industries mushrooming up all over with < 0.1% of population owning and profiting from these businesses and while the gap between haves and havenots is longer than the great wall of China and the impoverished keep getting poorer and the grass roots are neglected while it serves only a few backboneless software coolies, raising up real estate prices such that a decent house is beyond the reach of the common man or senselessly spend their western licked earned dollars thus raising the inflation on the price of essential goods through the roof for the common man, whose greedy and selfish nature is legendary, and ship abandoning skills that would make a possom proud, Or the rich few who have no religion or patriotism ( these so called 'global citizens') and who have forgotten how to speak their native language in their own homes) and who will sell their country off in a jiffy.. this is your idea of upliftment of people ?
RE:left hasnt been, and isnt right
by prem on Oct 23, 2007 10:23 AM Permalink
Bihar also poor. Inner AP(except Hyderabad, Vizag etc.,), Inner Karnataka, Vidarba, Assam also poor.
