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US conspiring to control nation's sovereignty: Sinha
Ranchi, July 28 (PTI) The USA is conspiring to control India's sovereignty through the Indo-US nuclear deal, India'sformer External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said Sunday.
"The Vajpayee government had given us nuclear power and now the USA wants its keys, so it is conspiring to control India's foreign policy and its sovereignty through the nuke deal," Sinha told a news conference here in the capital ofIndia's eastern state Jharkhand.
"Advani'ji' has already stated that the BJP will renegotiate the deal when it returns to power," Sinha, who is here as part of the BJP's week-long programme to reach out tothe people with its views on various issues, added.
He attacked the Left parties for rejecting a BJP proposal earlier for a special Parliamentary committee to look into thenuclear deal and recommend its suggestions to the government.
"Th Left had committed two more blunders this year -- rejecting our proposal for a special committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal and withdrawing support to the UPA when the PrimeMinister was in a foreign country," Sinha said.
Stating that nuclear deal had never been an issue before the country, he asked the Prime Minister as to why he did not mention in his speech during the trust vote the cost ofnuclear energy.
"I have made a research and concluded that the common man has to pay Rs 15 or Rs 20 per unit on nuclear energy. Is itcost effective?" Sinha said.
Taking on Uttar Pradesh's opposition leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sinha ridiculed his Samajwadi party of changing stancesdespite opposing the nuclear deal for months.
On the United Progressive Alliance government scoring the trust vote win, Sinha alleged that it was a win bought through "different means." "The government machinery was at work. They approached 50 Members of Parliament, some fell to the offer while three of the Bhartiya Janta Party MPs bravely exposed how money wasused to win the trust vote," alleged Sinha.
Expecting an impartial probe into the episode, Sinha accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "carefullycultivating" the trust vote win.
"First the Prime Minister's economic acumen failed him when inflation rose to record heights and now his shield of honesty has been punctured," he said. PTI
"The Vajpayee government had given us nuclear power and now the USA wants its keys, so it is conspiring to control India's foreign policy and its sovereignty through the nuke deal," Sinha told a news conference here in the capital ofIndia's eastern state Jharkhand.
"Advani'ji' has already stated that the BJP will renegotiate the deal when it returns to power," Sinha, who is here as part of the BJP's week-long programme to reach out tothe people with its views on various issues, added.
He attacked the Left parties for rejecting a BJP proposal earlier for a special Parliamentary committee to look into thenuclear deal and recommend its suggestions to the government.
"Th Left had committed two more blunders this year -- rejecting our proposal for a special committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal and withdrawing support to the UPA when the PrimeMinister was in a foreign country," Sinha said.
Stating that nuclear deal had never been an issue before the country, he asked the Prime Minister as to why he did not mention in his speech during the trust vote the cost ofnuclear energy.
"I have made a research and concluded that the common man has to pay Rs 15 or Rs 20 per unit on nuclear energy. Is itcost effective?" Sinha said.
Taking on Uttar Pradesh's opposition leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sinha ridiculed his Samajwadi party of changing stancesdespite opposing the nuclear deal for months.
On the United Progressive Alliance government scoring the trust vote win, Sinha alleged that it was a win bought through "different means." "The government machinery was at work. They approached 50 Members of Parliament, some fell to the offer while three of the Bhartiya Janta Party MPs bravely exposed how money wasused to win the trust vote," alleged Sinha.
Expecting an impartial probe into the episode, Sinha accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "carefullycultivating" the trust vote win.
"First the Prime Minister's economic acumen failed him when inflation rose to record heights and now his shield of honesty has been punctured," he said. PTI
