CPM Urges India to Come Out of US Hold

The Economic Times
Mar 30, 2008

COIMBATORE: The CPM is clearly on the warpath. After disturbing the Manmohan Singh government’s timeline for operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPM is setting out on another “task”—undoing the military collaboration agreement and disentangling India from the “strategic embrace” of the US. Reaffirming that the party will not allow the nuclear deal to go forward, the CPM alleged that it was a “wholesale shift” in foreign policy and strategic perspective. “The defence framework agreement and the nuclear cooperation agreement are parts of an over-arching alliance,” party general secretary Prakash Karat said at the inaugural session of the CPM’s 19th Congress here on Saturday. Mr Karat said that “many” in the UPA government believe that the US will help India become a major power and expressed the hope that the current financial crisis across the world will make them change their minds.

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