Our PM was serious when he threatened to quit over Nuke deal.He was right in more than one way as India's credibility is at stake in international arena,if the deal is not signed. No one would take India seriously at G8 Summit as it would lose moral authority to speak or suggest anything to the world at large when India could not stick on to its convictions. The PM's spin doctors are now giving a different interpretation to his ultimatum to Sonia Gandhi -- that what was a stake was not the prime minister's honour but the country's credibility in the international arena. And that no one will take India seriously if the government does not operationalise the deal. Why would Putin believe India if the prime minister gives an undertaking on climate change at the G-8 meet in Japan? It is time for think tank in the Congress to take stock of the situation and act accordingly.Now Kashmir is burning as Azad Govt did one thing wrong without consulting the High Command putting the clock back to 1990. Of late, Kashmir was peaceful and things were moving in India's favour as a peaceful Kashmir is as important. But Azad's one childish act has put every body in quandary over his intention. Where was the need for him to act in such a manner when the elections were round the corner. Kashmir need more developmental activities to banish poverty and create employment opportunity to one and all educated who are languishing there in streets and roads of Srinagar and elsewhere.Arrest the trend.
RE:India's Credibility is at stake.
by sayan DuttaGupta on Jul 01, 2008 11:47 AM Permalink
The priminister is worried about how to face Bush if nuclear deal face. he is not worried how he will face the poor people of this country when the inflation is rising shame less creature
Why the hell on earth that BJP doesn't support N-deal? If they are patriots (unlike Commies) they have to come forward and support Nuke deal in the parliament
RE:BJP should support Nuke deal
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 11:36 AM Permalink
They do not want Congress to claim the credit. So the BJP opposes for sake of opposinng. Such anti-national party
RE:BJP should support Nuke deal
by Klu Klan on Jul 01, 2008 11:51 AM Permalink
Wrong. They just want one caveat to be removed from the deal regarding future tests. If you cant understand this I guess your head has nothing but hay.
RE:BJP should support Nuke deal
by sayan DuttaGupta on Jul 01, 2008 11:47 AM Permalink
The priminister is worried about how to face Bush if nuclear deal face. he is not worried how he will face the poor people of this country when the inflation is rising shame less creature
Neeraja seems to be the advocate of anti Manmohan faction in UPA and Congress. The Left prop is an aberration and their main job was for plotting for Third Front using some disgruntled regional satraps out of chair. Despite Left support, the anti-people maesures had no limit, be it price rise, skyrocketing real esttae prices, diapidated PDS and shoddy internal and external security. There is nothing much to show in the score card vis a vis the NDA Govt of BJP. Left is not Right and Nandigram hooror is enough to expose their hypocricy and trhe dream of repaeting a Nepal in India is all they keep.
It is time to get rid of the Left and seek a mandate. Left itself is in bad shape and in Kerala some of them even lose their deposits.
Poor Manmohan singh is asserting though it is too late.
RE:Manmohan Asserting-Belatedly
by sayan DuttaGupta on Jul 01, 2008 11:49 AM Permalink
nuclear deal is not good for india. generating power from nuclear technology is very costly.it will only help some multinational companies.and moreover india won't bbe bale 2 perform nuclear test. The priminister is worried about how to face Bush if nuclear deal fails. he is not worried how he will face the poor people of this country when the inflation is rising shame less creature
There comes a time, in well meaning people's lives, where a thousand fingers might point at you saying you are wrong ..... and you know within, that you are jolly well right. It needs 'conviction' to not cling to power like a limpet. With China upto mischief in the north eastern sector and a not so friendly government at the helm in Pakistan (infiltration into Kashmir has been revived) and Russia not being the power it once used to be, will the nuclear treaty not prove to be deterrent to those who threaten the integrity of the nation. Did anyone receive the message when Dr. Singh said that it is perhaps the friendliest of governments at the helm in the US? If granted re-processing rights, will we not not be part of nuclear 'haves', a club so difficult to get into. Pls. think hard !
RE:Pls. think hard for the nation !
by sayan DuttaGupta on Jul 01, 2008 11:52 AM Permalink
it has been proved in the developing countries that generating power from nuclear deal is very costly.we won't get cheaper power. and more over india won't be able 2 conduct nuclear test. The priminister is worried about how to face Bush if nuclear deal fail. he is not worried how he will face the poor people of this country when the inflation is rising shame less creature
firstly as the author has stated no party got the majority, so also , no coalition approved by the people, hunger for power makes politicians strange bed fellows, it is not good governance, betterment of masses, that is uppermost in their minds but clinging to power by hook or crook. when a coalition takes charge of governance the parties know that any one can topple the cart, tell me right, middle of right and extreme left dogmas how can they gel?what good policy can be framed where there is so much of difference in line of thinking. in such a case the coalition will still survive if there is still one point of control i.e the pm chooses his cabinet and the govt is run, what we see now is the president of 1 party is more powerful than the pm and the same person is chairman of the coalition, cmp is staying in power, the pm is just a stooge in the whole scenario, the cabinet ministers of diff parties give their own versions publicly no raprimands, what does such a pm do. mohana may be an excellent economist/person but in such a sceneario he is a misfit cause the president doesnot let him function, he has only two options one do what his master says secondly resign, the nation today has so many immidiate probs to be tackled, sadly, the govt is busy hunting for allies to save its skin. we as anation are so unfortunate to hve such petty minded polticians who can change their stance over night best example is mulla mulayam who now will gv support for his pound of flesh i.e blocki
RE:PM,DILEMMA
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 11:30 AM Permalink
At least the UPA-Left coalition problem cropped up at the end of 4 1/2 yrs. This is far better than NDA who put up daily soap operas - Maya, Jaya, Mamta etc tantrums, leaving, rejoining, leaving again for very trivial reasons
You judgement is highly lop-sided which undermined the sobriety and ethical standard MMS (and Dr Kalam who supported the deal as well)brought to Indian politics. Sonia Gandhi is the Chairperson of a coalition group who declined the coveted PM seat and set up an example by passing on the mantle to a person who led the popularity chart way ahead of any Indian politician. Obviously, it is ideally imperative for Mr. Singh to consult Sonia on important policy matters, if not, day to day routine operations. For many sci-tech reasons India must clinch this deal and for the US this is a strategic initiative to get Indian support in its travail through challenged times. The deal besides energe-tic, also, places India in the elite NSG group and puts her out of the ambit of nuclear apartheid. The deal also opens up floodgate of sophisticated dual-based technologies. India enters into an exponential phase of growth where she needs to enhance her Armamentarium. This is not a meek surrender to America like the left did to its foster countries during Afghanistan intervention or Tiananmen square massacre or human rights violation at Tibet or Warsaw pact countries. There are flaws in American foreign policy which even face strong opposition in its own backyard but historical miscalculations should not be counted to discount endless possibilities in the future. We just need to respond to the Call of Time which entails a productive and mutually beneficial relationship in the decades to come.
RE:RE:STOP KILLING HINDUS IN THE NAME OF JIHAD....
by BrotherhoodofNod on Jul 01, 2008 11:21 AM Permalink
Dont worry..
the first thing to come on earth was hindusim.. or all religions in the world are a subset of hindiusm.. technically all humans are hindus.. thy just dont knw that..
RE:STOP KILLING HINDUS IN THE NAME OF JIHAD....
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 11:32 AM Permalink
Why is that Hindus are the only majority in a country who has a minority complex? Think about it it is the Hindutva forces that conditioned people as such
I also thought that Manmohan singh is right man. But off late I have realised that even though he might be honest in not taking bribe but still he cannot be called a clean person. Because he does undue favour to Sonia which should not done. If he is clean he should not be doing things in name of political compulsions or benifit of congress. Sonia is the super prime minister and what else tells it that mr Manmohan chamcha of sonia did not even have the right to choose his ministers and people tell openly that sonia ji is going to decide on this. This should or is the right of prime minister to decide on misiters and Sonia ji should not interfer in it Congress does not believe in democracy but believes in chamchagiri. Manmohan might be doing this because he wants to be called in future as future prime minister. Manmohan singh after the end of his tenure will no longer remain clean in front of people is my prediction. Because his slogan is chanchagiri ke liye kuch bhi karega.
MMS has become every other politoco of this country like Gandhi/Nehru type where his own standing matters whether it is good or bad for people or country. This is what imperialists are good at they have made this into MMS mind that he is doing a great thing and will be making history by signing this deal. In a democratic country if there is so much opposition to a deal just drop or renegotiate after all only MMS and his cronies are not the only intelligent people I am sure people who are not enjoying SARKARI free ration are also intelligent. DOWN WITH MMS
Although the Indian government wants to promote the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal in terms of power generation, the deal has very little to do with power generation. Nuclear power contributes about 2 percent of the current electricity generations in India. At present, India was producing 3,300 MW. In 2020, the production would be 7,000 MW. According to the Planning Commission and the Prime Minister, the capacity of nuclear power would be 20,000 MW in the year 2020. In order to get there India will buy second-hand reactors from the U.S. to produce 13,000 MW of nuclear power. India will have to spend about Rs. 2 lakh crore for reactors and another Rs. 8 lakh crore to set them up with fuel facilities to achieve that goal. The Indian budget is only Rs. 6.5 lakh crore per year. Thus, India will spend two times more than the country’s annual budget on setting up these vintage reactors only. Even if India were to achieve a 50% increase in nuclear power generation (which is unlikely) such a step would only increase India’s overall electricity output by one percent at most, and would only increase India’s overall energy output by a fraction of one percent. The reason, USA is pushing so hard that India should accept the deal, is, that, this deal is nothing but nuclear non-proliferation treaty in a different name. If MM Singh is a democrat, he should have organized a Referendum or at least a voting in the joint session of the Parliament.
RE:Unelected Undemocratic PM
by rohit thakkar on Jul 01, 2008 11:18 AM Permalink
Further dear, even if we believe mR. BOSE THAT the country will be investing this much. Kindly look in to the amount being invested in the NUclear research in India at present and the total amount that India will invest in future years to achieve the technology standards that it will recieve now itself.
RE:Unelected Undemocratic PM
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 11:05 AM Permalink
The deal is not so much to setup "vintage" reactors but to up the capacity of "vintage" reactors already setup. Only these category of civilian reactors are covered by the treaty.
dia's fast breeder reactor is in the cutting edge of nuclear technology. It is based on thorium. The problem is that this technology is still in its developmental stage. So India's medium and long term strategy is on fast breeder reactors which remain unchanged.
RE:Unelected Undemocratic PM
by rohit thakkar on Jul 01, 2008 11:14 AM Permalink
What India is wishing to get from the US and other NSG members is that advanced Thorium based reactors(India has 40% of the world thorium reserves), and Fuel (Uranium) for its current reactors which are starved of fuel shortage and running at much lower than their capacity.
If India hopes to build Thorium based Reactors, it is still going to take too many years. So, Please support the deal dear. Their Nuclear Technology is much advanced than ours.We have to accept this.
RE:Unelected Undemocratic PM
by rohit thakkar on Jul 01, 2008 11:04 AM Permalink
get your facts right mr... U people misconvey the information. provide half the total information and feel that you are the country's best thinkers.
RE:Unelected Undemocratic PM
by counter view on Jul 01, 2008 11:11 AM Permalink
Instead of coming up with phony opposition, try to point out with the facts, known to you.
It will serve the purpose of discussion board far better.
