Click to play videoNew Delhi: Just weeks after he declared that the honeymoon with the UPA is over, the CPI General Secretary, A B Bardhan is in mood to end the marriage just yet, but he does have a few questions for the government.
“We had suggested a mechanism yesterday but we don't know if it is acceptable to the government,” says Bardhan.
“Now that the agreement is there we are telling the government what our concerns are. Let them deal with that!” he adds.
Having agreed to discuss rather than disagree, the UPA and Left held another round of deliberations to break the nuclear deal standoff.
The Congress chief troubleshooter, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee briefed the two smaller Left parties on the proposed mechanism that will study the implications of the Hyde Act.
Smaller Left parties however, haven't scaled down their rhetoric.
“We oppose the agreement in totality,” says RSP leader, Abani Roy.
In the meantime, CNN-IBN has learnt:
- Pranab Mukherjee will in all likelihood, be the convener of the panel that will largely comprise politicians as demanded by the Left.
- Members may include key ally leaders including Sharad Pawar, Laloo Yadav, Science and Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, representatives of DMK, CPI and CPI(M). Ahmed Patel may be included as Sonia Gandhi's representative.
- The panel importantly will have no representatives from the other dissenting groups in Parliament that is the BJP or the UNPA.
Though the panel was not supposed to include BJP members from the beginning there is likely to be a furore over their exclusion.
Even the UNPA is expected to resent this panel. In the meantime, the crucial debate on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal begins in Parliament on Wednesday.
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