The Left Parties may not have hidden agendas in their withdrawing support to the UPA government they are themselves being forced to face the electorate in the process. But for once they seem to have played the responsible role of calling for increased transparency and public debate at national and regional level on critical issues of national progress and security like the Nuclear Deal. The government attempt to force general public to argue for or against the deal based only on ideological inclination in the absence of information and facts shakes the very roots of a democracy we boast of. The fact that a pure rational decision of nuclear co-operation is surely to be a major election slogan for all political parties in the coming election is proof of it. First indications are those of BSP withdrawing and SP providing support to Congress with practically no idea of the nuclear deal as proven by the statements of SP leaders these last few days.The fact that nuclear supplies can be had from many sources including France in Europe and Russia may need to be explored in details. Linking nuclear deals to IT and other business links to USA may be premature. Also simply as a reversal of Bush policies, any new President (Democrat or Republican) in Whitehouse will distance himself from Bush legacy including Nuclear closeness with India. Continuity of Bush policy is unlikely. So why this hurry to close deal by UPA? The left is not very strong in their own states what with Nandigram and
