On this occassion the left is right. Two or more reasons:
Once the document becomes operational it is not the Supreme Court of India that will interpret its provisions; rather, it will be a foreign agency dominated by USA or China or whoever else that will have the dominant role in interpreting the provisions. Mind you, it is the interpretation and not the print that counts. And our government will be pressurised unnecessarily to the detriment of the country. We ought not let anyone set foot on Indian soil in the garb of inernational nuclear inspectors or similar because the places and the things they will intrude into will be decided by outside powers and the country will not be able to do anything to stop them. We should learn from the experience of other countries.
Secondly, India will be obliged to keep and open its nuclear accounts for inspection by the outside inspectors or powers. It will unnecessarily limit the deterance value of its nuclear posture.
Instead of entering into this arrangement what India should do is to develop its own reservoir of nuclear material on a slow but steady pace without outside interferance.
RE:Nuclear Deal
by Raghu K on Jul 09, 2008 03:11 PM Permalink
Its very easy to post stupid things about stuff that you don't know.
India doesn't have any sufficient quantity of uranium in its soil, so the only way is to buy it from outside. We already have a huge shortage of power and our existing atomic reactors are running at 50% capacity because we don't have fuel. We badly need lots more power for the growing economy.
Second, as per the agreement we have to divide our atomic installations to civilian and military. Civilian ones will receive fuel from USA and will be under supervision by IAEA. Military ones will not be under any other countries watch.
RE:Nuclear Deal
by lukose vj on Jul 09, 2008 03:51 PM Permalink
Let us wait and see. We all can be happy if the written words of the treaty would mean to outsiders the same thing as they mean to you while the treaty is being implemented.
RE:Nuclear Deal
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 09, 2008 03:37 PM Permalink
Congress recd a big slap on its 'dash' point. A little bit time will take to stand aright. It is an outcome of 60 years' anti-people policy. Congress has broken its own leg. It ordered for artificial leg.
