Andhra Pradesh

Karat’s poser to Manmohan

BHIMAVARAM: CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Kharat on Friday dared Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prove his claim that the UPA Government was following the legacy of slain Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by suspending the nuclear deal his Government had struck with the United States. He was addressing a massive public meeting here while leading a `jatha’ from Chennai to Visakhapatnam in protest against the alleged unilateral decision of the Manmohan Singh Government to take part in the joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal along with the United States, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. The jatha leaders were accorded tumultuous reception by the rand and file of the left parties right from the point of their entry into West Godavari district near Akiveedu from Krishna district and up to Bhimavaram.

The CPI (M) leader recalled how the then Indira Gandhi government had countered the arm-twisting by the naval forces of the US for the former waging a war against Bangladesh. He called upon the people to fight against the UPA Government’s nuclear deal with the US as it was detrimental to the country’s sovereignty, foreign policy and Non-Alignment Movement pioneered by the country’s first Prime Minister Jawarlal Nehru. Mr. Kharat said the cost of production for power generation through the deal by importing power reactors was bound to increase many fold.

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