As most of the readers are aware, India and the U.S. are in advanced talks to complete signing an agreement that will benefit both countries. It is the Nuclear deal that I am talking about. While the Indian government, in particular the Congress, feels that the agreement will do a lot to enable India to make use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, the Left parties of India, in particular, the C.P.I. (M), feel that the agreement is a virtual sell-out to the U.S. and will destroy the independent nature of India's stand vis-a-vis the U.S.' foreign policy (w.r.t. Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc.)
Now, the Congress party has garnered the support of many of its supporters in the United Party Alliance circle (the U.P.A.) - such as the Samajwadi Party, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (the SP, the NCP and the BSP respectively). Even with this support, however, the Congress government cannot maintain majority in the Lok Sabha, and if the C.P.I. (M) withdraw the external support it had been providing the U.P.A., the central government will fall.
The next step in the signing process is India's presentation of safe-guards to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, www.iaea.org) in August. Let us see how this drama unfolds. It remains to be seen when the government falls ... as it will, as I see it.
2 comments:
No big deal if it falls. Just one set of scoundrels being replaced by another set.
To say nothing about that set of scoundrels firmly entrenched in the bureaucracy!
Can't blame them really! Just trying to make a living, they are! Washing their hands in the flowing Ganges....hope that was not 'lost in translation'!
Really when two living beings come together what is lost is momentum as a cost to unity. One wants to go north and the other south!
In contrast to when non-living entities come together : increase in mass = increase in momentum.
This natural fact is exploited by these politicians who cannot make a living any other way. They are not there to improve YOUR lot. He! He! Poor naive you!
Don't tell me you bought their spiel.
If some are supporting and others are not supporting the nuclear deal rest assured that it is not solely due to any intrinsic advantages of the deal.
The supporters will be gaining something outside the deal from supporting it as do the detractors from not supporting it.
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