Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Congress-led UPA government and its Left allies are finalising an agreement to end their differences on the Indo-US nuclear agreement.
Sources tell CNN-IBN that the government is willing to go slow on the deal and has assured the Left Front’s that the country’s nuclear programme will be kept independent.
The government plans to go slow on the nuclear deal for the next four to six weeks. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee met CPM leader Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday evening and the government and the Left parties will meet again on Thursday.
Both have agreed to form a committee to resolve their differences but a solution may not be that easy, as the Left parties want a commitment that the Government will not “operationalise” the deal.
Yechury, after a 90-minute meeting with Mukherjee, told reporters that the government must make a commitment it would not proceed with the deal "till this committee comes out with its findings".
"We exchanged views on the discussions the four Left parties had with the government over the last two days. We have told them that we are not with them on the nuclear deal. If the government puts on hold the operationalisation of the deal, the Left parties would then agree to a mechanism (on resolving the dispute)," Forward Bloc General Secretary Debabrata Biswas told reporters.
"This is the unanimous stand of the four Left parties," he said when asked about the reservations expressed on the mechanism by RSP leader Abani Roy after his talks with the External Affairs Minister yesterday.
Biswas further said the four Left parties had jointly decided on their stand earlier and they "are again together on the issue. They are unanimous on this, though there were some points of clarification", indicating the RSP.
Mukherjee has held several rounds of talks with Left leaders, especially Yechury, during the past several days in an effort to resolve the impasse.
The Left parties have warned the Government of “serious consequences” if it implements the nuclear deal but have rejected reports that they would withdraw support to UPA.
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