Congress spin doctors decode deal for masses
The Congress has started hard-selling the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in view of the impending mid-term polls. The party has deployed its best spokespersons to decode the deal for the people and explain its likely benefits.
By TNN |
MUMBAI: The Congress has started hard-selling the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in view of the impending mid-term polls. The party has deployed its best spokespersons to decode the deal for the people and explain its likely benefits.
The Union minister of state for industry Ashwani Kumar strongly defended the deal in Mumbai on Thursday when the stated purpose of his visit was to take stock of the industrial scenario in the state in view of the proposed Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. Mr Kumar made no secret of the Congress plan to put the nuclear deal at the centre of its main electoral plank of “nationalism”.
“The deal is in India’s best interests and objections to the deal are totally untenable and flawed. We must not look at the nuclear deal and other similar critical issues of national interest from the perspective of anti-Americanism of the past. The world has changed,” Mr Kumar said, in an apparent reference to the Left.
Asked if the Congress was prepared to sacrifice its government to uphold the deal, Mr Kumar claimed that the UPA government would survive its full term. “The Congress will not compromise with the national interest, come what may,” he said. He did not directly comment on the perception that the Left parties are opposing the deal due to their perceived proximity to China. “I would say that only two countries are not favourably inclined to the deal — China and Pakistan,” he said.
The Union minister of state for industry Ashwani Kumar strongly defended the deal in Mumbai on Thursday when the stated purpose of his visit was to take stock of the industrial scenario in the state in view of the proposed Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. Mr Kumar made no secret of the Congress plan to put the nuclear deal at the centre of its main electoral plank of “nationalism”.
“The deal is in India’s best interests and objections to the deal are totally untenable and flawed. We must not look at the nuclear deal and other similar critical issues of national interest from the perspective of anti-Americanism of the past. The world has changed,” Mr Kumar said, in an apparent reference to the Left.
Asked if the Congress was prepared to sacrifice its government to uphold the deal, Mr Kumar claimed that the UPA government would survive its full term. “The Congress will not compromise with the national interest, come what may,” he said. He did not directly comment on the perception that the Left parties are opposing the deal due to their perceived proximity to China. “I would say that only two countries are not favourably inclined to the deal — China and Pakistan,” he said.
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