10 years from now, we will renegotiate for a full acceptance as a nuclear weapon state and become the 6th recognised country.
If our friendship with the USA grows, it will not deny us. So we have to play the great international game.
Plus does anyone think that we could have had a better deal that this at the present level of India US frienship. What bargaining power do we have with the US if we constantly vote against their economic reforms.