New Delhi: The CPI(M) may have toned down its rhetoric on the Indo-US nuclear deal to some extent, but the party continues to issue threats to the UPA Government from time to time.
On Monday, it was CPI-M’s Central Committee member Nilotpal Basu who issued a veiled threat to the Manmohan Singh Government, saying it would review its decision to support the regime as soon as the dispensation operationalised the Indo-US nuclear deal.
“We don't want the government to operationalise the deal. If they do so, we will decide our course of action,” Basu told PTI when he was asked whether there was a possibility of withdrawal of support to the Central government.
He said the UPA Government had said it would not take a view until the UPA-Left joint mechanism gave its recommendations. “We hope the mechanism will arrive at some result.”
The CPI(M) also sought to play down the apparent differences between the party's Bengal leaders and General Secretary Prakash Karat.
Central Committee member Mohammad Selim said CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's support for nuclear power and defence of the US investment should not be construed as support for the nuclear deal.
“Our party is not against nuclear power per se. We just want to stress that nuclear power constitutes only a small component of our energy security,” he said.
Selim said there have been a lot of interpretations (by the media) since they did not understand the party fully.
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