"it is very important for us to move forward to end this nuclear apartheid", said the prime minister, recently.
If the PM is genuinely interested in getting thro with the nuclear-fuel deal within the Bush regime, he should, instead of asking pranab to convince karat on it, himself meet Advani and explain to him how the 123 agreement is only a ritual for american procedural reqmnts and will not really curtail india's full freedom and sovereignty to even go for nuclear arms if forced to, cancelling this agreement, at that time. Such a contingency may never arise, since the western powers will surely ensure that india is not threatened with nuclear arms by pak or iran, china or north korea. If Advani is convinced, BJP may agree for bipartisan support to nuclear-fuel deal with US. The UPA govt can go then ahead fast, ignoring the leftists' desire to tie india to islamic oil and gas, rather than go for globally controlled and monitired nuclear energy, which can be the only real answer to simultaneously avoid both global warming and also the fossil-fuel crunch in an expanding world economy.
