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Demonstration staged
Voicing protest: Members of CPI (M) staging demonstration in Tirupur on Saturday, to protest against the Central Government’s decision to move forward with the nuclear deal .
Tirupur: Members of Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged demonstrations at 20 places in the city on Saturday evening, to protest against the United Progressive Alliance Government’s decision to move ahead with nuclear deal.
They held the agitation on the day when US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in New Delhi for the high-level talks on nuclear deal with top leaders of the country.
Terming it as ‘Black day’, the agitators alleged that the Central Government had sacrificed the nation’s foreign policy at the doorsteps of United States of America by going ahead with a deal which was ‘against the interests of the people’.
The CPI (M) members expressed apprehensions that the reverting provisions of Hyde Act would put additional burden on full civilian nuclear co-operation.
They said it was indeed annoying that the country was committing itself to buy 10,000 MW worth of reactors from the dying nuclear industry that had not received any fresh order for the last 30 years.
According to them, the move is unviable considering that the nation have to pay Rs 2,80,000 crore to obtain these reactors about eight times the capital cost of establishing a thermal power plant.
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