Two aspects stand out in the Singhvi gibberish blabber talk.
Soverign Govt - Cong has about 140 MPs in the Lok Sabha. They HEAD a ruling formation, thats it. They have the authority only on the basis of the merit of vote of the parties/MPs supporting them in Lok Sabha. When the supporters pull out they are not more soverign.
Secondly: If A Singhvi says nobody can dictate deadlines to a Soverign Govt - he assumes the clarity that the supporting parties/allies want on a deal of national interest in the long run.
How about the deadline set by the Bush administration to ink the deal by this tenure and the haste shown by MMS?
Is it not a deadline set by the Bush admin and the American Congress?
Shame on the party that has ruled the nation for 5 years.
RE:Soverign Govt???
by ramesh wasudeo on Jul 04, 2008 07:47 PM Permalink
pity people in mahatam gandhi's home country want to compete for nuclear arsenal. peaceful use of nuclear power is necessary for lighting up dark village huts. hitler lost war with guns. gandhi defeated england bare haned. no country is ever likely to use nuclear weapons.
RE:Soverign Govt???
by Ajoy Sen on Jul 04, 2008 08:06 PM Permalink
I agree with what Ms Rekha Gopalan has said on the issue.Mr. Singhvi is angry that a group (Left) which kept them in power for more than 4 years, had shown the audacity to "set a deadline" of any sort as because their's is a sovereign Govt. But he does not have any grievance that their "MASTER", the American Govt has set a deadline to sign on the dotted space. He, then, forgets that their's is a sovereign government of a sovereign country.
RE:Soverign Govt???
by Sumit Deb on Jul 04, 2008 07:31 PM Permalink
I do not agree with you. China & Pakistan are the two bigeest threat of India in this part of the world & these two coutries are hand-in-glove against the future aspiration of India. In the post cold-war era, the best way to counter this threat is through a better alignment of polical tie through a strong Indo-US relationship as there are no fourth powerful country in this region who can be a strategic ally to minimist this risk...Hence, even if India needs to show a proactive approach towards making a strong Indo-US tie up; I do not think that it is wrong...We should be concerned about national interest only not not be governed by the ego whether US has set a deadline for India - Ain't it?
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by ramesh vyas on Jul 04, 2008 07:35 PM Permalink
i m not an advocate of congress but i disagree on the haste mentioned as congress had to take lots of time because of lefts adament attitude .since the administration in us is going to change obviously deal has to be hurried through falling which entire exercise will have to be started fresh.my advise to political parties is to rise above petty politics and let their political narrow interest not come otherwise time is running out of people of thiscountry to teach these parties a lesson .
RE:RE:Soverign Govt???
by Rajendra G on Jul 04, 2008 07:44 PM Permalink
Ms. Rekha Gopalan has just said it all for everyone of us who want to say something. Congrats Rekha for a bold and true analysis.
RE:Soverign Govt???
by Rams on Jul 04, 2008 07:34 PM Permalink
Don't get excited about these shameless creatures please. This is all drama forced upon Sonia and Commies by Manmohan who is determined to see through the nuclear deal. Whatever the commies say in public, it is them who gave time to Congress to see support from Mulayam. Commies do not want their ideology to be suffered. That is what they are interested about. If they are really interetsed in stopping the nuclear deal, they had many chances to pull the govt down before Mulayam came out with support.
