Mr. Anil Kumar, you might have been a great pilot. I dont dispute that. But I dont understand why you should write on issues you dont really understand.
There is no question of losing face if India backs out on nuclear deal. India is a rare exception where the govt sign an international agreement without consulting the parliament, forget about any public debate.
Obviously, there are hundreds of examples when govt negotiated a deal but had to back out later as the parliament did not allow. Even the US has done it several times. So heaven will not fall if India backs out.
Can you explain why the govt did not go for public debate or even a proper debate in the parliament beforing signing a deal on such an important issue? The fact is that the majority in the parliament is opposed to the deal!
In fact even the left parities have been making this point. But still they are not willing to engage in a lerger debate involving all parties.
How can we go for a deal that the majority in the parliament opposes just because our constitution allows that and the framers of our constitution did not anticipate such situation?
We however avoided such a situation by following a consensus based approach. Even the Vajpayee government was about to send troops to Iraq but did not go ahead as the opposition parties objected. Is it not strange that a nominated PM of a minority govt wants to take such a major decision disregarding the majority opinion of the parliament??
