'India must crusade for n-disarmament'

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MAY 11. The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) has called upon people of India to pressure the Government to roll back its nuclear weapons programme and resume its role as crusader for worldwide nuclear disarmament.

In a statement released here today, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Pokhran-2 blasts, the CNDP also called on the Indian Government and other Governments to ``unequivocally, whole-heartedly and vigorously'' oppose the U.S. plans to build a national missile defence.

``Failure to stop these global and regional nuclear trajectories will only worsen Indian and world security and weaken the all important struggle to completely and permanently eliminate nuclear weapons from the globe,'' it said. Urging both India and Pakistan to look at their pressing social problems, the CNDP asked whether underdeveloped and impoverished nations indulged in the sheer profligacy of a nuclear weapons programme, while millions of their children perished from malnutrition and disease. ``Can we afford the bomb that promises communalism at the cost of development,'' it asked.

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