. The deadlock over the deal is proving to be a grave distraction from the weighty problems on the economic front, besides posing a threat to the government.
The series of discussions between the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on behalf of the United Progressive Alliance government and the Left parties, led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat, have encountered a roadblock on the question of the safeguards and conditionalities negotiated by the government with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The government has so far been disinclined to share with the Left the draft of the agreement with the IAEA and the Left has expressed its determination to withdraw its support to the government if its objections to the deal are ignored.
] at the forthcoming G-8 meeting, and feeling obliged to deliver what both have laboured so hard for, has understandably been driven to desperation with a sense of being let down and his authority being undermined.
Full Story: Having the N-deal and saving the government
The series of discussions between the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on behalf of the United Progressive Alliance government and the Left parties, led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat, have encountered a roadblock on the question of the safeguards and conditionalities negotiated by the government with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The government has so far been disinclined to share with the Left the draft of the agreement with the IAEA and the Left has expressed its determination to withdraw its support to the government if its objections to the deal are ignored.
] at the forthcoming G-8 meeting, and feeling obliged to deliver what both have laboured so hard for, has understandably been driven to desperation with a sense of being let down and his authority being undermined.
Full Story: Having the N-deal and saving the government
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