India is a democracy and it is best reflected in the latest dispute on nuclear deal with US. India is divided in to two groups. One side, we have Mr. Manmohan Singh and his team, who are determined to go for the deal and on the other side we have left parties headed by Mr. Prakash Karat, who are dead against the deal. The deal is in dead lock and India may end up as a looser if it drops the deal.
Question now here is whether it is the ideological difference or it is politically motivated. Left says they are ideologically opposing the deal, but difficult to digest. Left probably are trying to use this issue again to prove their presence in this country.
So What is this deal all about ?
The deal says that US will assist India in its civilian nuclear programs and in return India has to offer its civilian nuclear sites for inspection by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Why Manmohan Singh & Team are determined to go for it ?
We all know Manmohan Singh as a man who always supported liberalization and growth. He is very much convinced about the deal and understands clearly that unless we take assistance from US , we will not be in a position to sustain our growth. The deal will allow India to build many nuclear reactors for power generation.
In the present scenario, India has two major constraints for its growth. One, the power shortage and future demand for power is growing exponentially. Second, the India does not have enough natural resources and imports most of its oil from other countries. If the nuclear deal is through and India is able to generate power by nuclear energy, then both the problems of reliance on oil as well as power shortage will be solved to a major extent. Hence this will prove to be an advantage for India. Other than that the diplomatic relation with US will also be beneficial to India, which in turn will catalyze the growth of many Indian businesses which are dependent on US economy.
Why Prakash Karat & Team are opposing the deal ?
The left parties see this deal as a conflict of national interest. They are of the opinion that by going for this deal, US will indirectly have a control/say on Indian affairs. This is not going well wit left parties and hence they are ideologically (??) not supporting the deal.
Why US is interested in the deal ?
US understands India is a major emerging market and wants to improve the diplomatic relationship with India. Also it wants to strengthen its base in South Asia by having relationship with India . The US is not so much comfortable with its old alley Pakistan because of political turbulence there. It wants to limit the growth and influence of China in Asia by supporting the equally good economy of India.
What India should do ?
There are pros and cons for every deal and no deal will be one sided. India will be gaining a lot by this deal and may loose few. But in national interest and if we want to see India as the next super power, this deal will provide a good platform.
Then what is the problem with Left ?
The left does not understand this ( or never tried to understand) and will never understand. They still think like 50 years back, when communal ism was a success and they never change with the time. Even if communism dies everywhere in the world, our left parties will be alive troubling others and hampering India’s growth. Even the communist China understood this and slowly opened up its market and moving towards capitalism market.
What other parties think ?
Except left, all others are supporting the deal. Even the enemies of UPA , like shiva sena have openly supported the deal. The opposition party BJP is also seems to be convinced about the deal, but opposing it politically rather than ideologically.
Finally …
The determination of Manmohan Singh Government is very good and it should go ahead with the deal without delaying it further. This may result in left withdrawing the support and fall of UPA government. I am sure Manmohan Singh won’t budge this time and will go ahead with what is more important to nation (Growth) rather than what is more important to congress( Political Power).
Critically yours
kiran
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In US , there is no further scope for Nuclear Energy. And everybody knows that the present technology for Nuclear power is not at all promising and even in India development is very marginal. US main intention is not good. That nobody knows. We know how they trated middle east countries. But unfortunately some our politians , burocrats and are working on this without seeing the Indian ordinary people.
Did critic Kiran read what is actually written in the Nuclear Deal agreement? Just by saying that a party’s thinking is 50 years does not really mean anything. I am surprised to see Indians so much lacking knowledge of their own country and world politics and having no vision of India’s future. What the Britishers did until 60 years ago is what the Americans are going to do. What a shame!
“Communist idea of ideology propagation is through spreading imaginary fears. We want to see governments solving real problems like poverty and underdevelopment and not waste their energy in dealing with imaginary fears. Trust me, imaginary fears never had a solution and will have none in the future as well. Hey communist uncle,Just imagine what the next generation children will think when they are told about your obstructionist tactics that delayed faster economic growth.”
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Was messed up with this Nuclear Deal..Now this blog gives clear picture…….
I do not think the so called experts’ warnings have any base. Please read the paragraph on Inspection in the agreements. Section 59 clearly stipulates that aroutine inspetion will inclde an audit of the reports and records for verification of the amount of safeguarded material by physical inspection , measurement and sampling. Once the material is supplied by the supplying countries bound by a mulitilateral agreement with India under the umbrella of this agrreement , it will come under the scrutiny of this inspection. If non conformances are found then IAEA can declare a non compliance and take measures as declared in Article XII , C of the statute. (which by the way is missing from this report) . But from my personal experince of facing ISO audits and other automoive audits for many years I can say that even if a thing is not mentioned on the report, an auditor can raise issues under the broad purview of nuclear safety and pressurise the supplier countries to halt the supply of nuclear material at any time.
I oppose this… The Left parties have a very good idea about the nuke deal and they are standing there for the national interest. According to this act we have to partition our nuclear plants into two groups and all our military secrets will definitely go into american hands. And the americans are coming with this deal only because of their interest in our domestically developed world class techniques for uraneum enrichmen. There is a hide act which enforces us to buy the machineries needed for the uraneum enrichment. This with the aim of preventing our growth in that field and to increase our consumerism(i meant the dependency on other countries for importing techniques and machineries)….
The left parties know very much about the energy crisis. …
They are opposing this deal only because they wasnt to remove all these hide deals from the deal and to make it more transparent…
and if the americans want to end the deal suddenly on one day we will again fall into energy crisis …..
There is no so called ensurance for the continuous fuel supply………
So it is better not to jump into the deal…..
it is a new form of colonialism..
We have to prevent that..
I Can not support: -
1. Military reactor under US supervision in future.
2.Restriction on Indo – Iran relationship.
3.submission of statement of nuclear activities.
Hence I feel that it should not be hastened.
Some people without going to the detail of the things,post some blogs…this man knows nothing…lures of America…
Hey man,the deal is a strict No-No…