Who said the Left was bad for India? They provided the UPA the additional bargainability while negotiating with the US. The latter knew that if they had to get an agreement, they had to concede more.
This is where the NDA failed. All constituents, particularly BJP were prepared to play second fiddle to the US. So the ended up with a deal worse than the UPA.
Omar Adbullah Minister of State of External Affairs of the then NDA government went to record on last night's Big Fight (NDTV.
1. The NDA Govt was negotiating a similar treaty 2. The terms of which were perceptibly worse 3. Though the terms were perceptibly worse, the NDA was prepared to sign.
Further Talbot, US Ambassador at the time of the NDA tenure, in a book revealed that the NDA government had secret negotiations with the US to sign NPT, CTBT, viz. internationally agreeing to permanently give up our rights to test a nuclear bomb.
If Talbot's book is not be tobelieved, then the official recordings of Vajpayee (1999) and Jaswant Singh (2000) speeches to the Gen Assembly of the UN. They promised that India would unilaterally and permanently gave up its right to test.
So who is anti-Hindu, anti-India? Who is opposing an agreement that is termed anti-Muslim and appeasing Mullahs. It is clear that BJP-NDA was always anti-national and that is why they find common ground with a Chinese centered Left/
