let this nuke deal usher in the best hour in indian parliament's history. let the whole country see the drama unfold; it can only be best for india. do not trust leaders who say they know what is best for the country, and hence the people do not need to know. let it all hang out, out there in open. let every mp burn midnight oil, get to the full facts of the deal, ask tought questions, and make up her/his own mind. the indian parliament needs to put its foot down, and tell the unelected prime minnister mm sigh that he does not represent people, and that the wole parliament will decide thr' a vote. the indian people deserve no less.
RE:the debate in parliament is an absolute must
by on Aug 10, 2007 12:32 PM Permalink
I fully agree with you, Mr.Pradip. MM Singh has no right to thrust this deal down the country's throat. To say that "as per the Indian constitution the govt in power need not seek parliamentary approval for signing any international deals and treaties" is nothing short of treachery. The other day Arnab of Times TV was fervently arguing that "the PM having gone down the road so far with Bush cannot obviously pull away from it just because it not in India's interest". What a stupid statement. Bharat Karnad, who was responding at the other end aptly said, "Manmohan Singh has no right to decide the country's fate by mortgaging its nuke sovereignty and security just for the sake of writing his name in history". I am not any fan of the irrational, treacherous communists of India. I am sure their opposition to the Deal is based on their blind opposition of US on every issue. But as far as I see, this 123 Deal is a pure and simple Hatchet Plan of US to "halt, cap, roll back and ultimately dismantle all nuke programs of all non-weapon states". A democratic nation with a population nearly 4 times that of US is being as a non-weapon state despite the entire world knowing that we not only possess the conventional nuke weapons, but also the thermonuclear ones with IBMs, IRBMs and ICBMs to carry them across oceans and continents. What we need is to build at least 5000 war-heads to show what India can do if we set our minds to. Then the Yankees will know how to respect us.
