It beats the imagination why Prakash Karat and his party do not want India to take the next two steps in the nuclear engagement with the United States. The next steps are essential because they engage India with many more countries, diluting the hitherto isolation of our people from the larger world. Surely, we can be confident of our ability to transact what is the best deal for us and continue to ensure, through democratic negotiations, that we are not taken for a ride or exploited. But during the past two years, apart from barking and snapping at the Government every time the nuclear deal came up for discussion, the Left has done precious little. Let us not forget that it was the Left which broke ranks with the Opposition when the BJP suggested the adoption of a sense of the House resolution to fix the bottomline of the deal. ------india unwire . com
