I clearly mentioned in one of my comments way back in September that Congress will give a slow burial to this deal. They have achieved all the political benefits out of this. Meanwhile BJP wanted only a domestic law to overcome Hyde Act in USA and otherwise they supported the deal. Still, from the beginning I was of the wiew that BJP made a mistake in joining the Commies side of the argument. BJP should have rather supported the deal and asked the UPA to go ahead even if Commies oppose the deal. That strategy would have worked politically as well as in getting support from the people.
RE:Not surprising
by Suresh Babu on Oct 13, 2007 12:01 PM Permalink
One thing is sure now there is no opposition to UPA as there was only Left Parties and UPA since last three months. BJP leaders have no voice in the Nuclear deal.
RE:Not surprising
by kandhukuri kumar on Oct 13, 2007 07:15 AM Permalink
I think that's not true.. Congress is the only party that has that guts to bring this deal into paper.. even BJP tried in 2001 and failed miseribly. Manmohan singh is the man behind all the economic reforms of modern INDIA.. and this is the another huge revolutionary idea of DR.Singh, which will make our country more strong and also will produce more jobs. There is no way that deal is going to end, its just small game that CPI/CPM is told to play to save CPI/CPM party from polls, because they are going to verly badly. Even the Wbengal CM told the nuclear deal is important for modern india and this is going to happen but we need patience...
RE:RE:Not surprising
by Prashanth Sheshadri on Oct 13, 2007 09:10 AM Permalink
Congress is expert in making fool of people and deriving political mileage out of everything that they do. The suckers from left played along very well and achieved their objective (i.e that of China). So, basically the output is lots of foolish people who can't see through Congress tactics. MM Singh never had the balls to get this deal to completion. He has once again shown who is the real boss in his party. Shame on MM Singh!
RE:Not surprising
by Mahesh on Oct 13, 2007 07:25 AM Permalink
BJP government was the architect of this idea but they could not take it to conclusion as their term ended. Congress only followed BJP and expanded on that. If Dr. Singh was such a great person, why is he going back now? If you think this is just a game, dream on. Time is everything. If this deal is delayed beyond this year, you conclude it is dead. America will not have time to approve this deal next year as they will be in election mode. Congress will do anything to save their power including destroying/sacrificing the country's interests.
The simplest thing the PM should have done is to involve the Opposition BJP in the negotiations a la PVN and Vajpayee in the UN. That way the BJP could not have gone back.
But the congress did not do that as they wanted to bask in the glory had the deal been successful. It was only when the BJP opposed the deal that the talk, of the deal being started by BJP, started.
