N-power must be a credible deterrent: BJP
Credible minimum deterrent and not energy, according to the BJP, should be the central concern while considering the Indo-US nuclear deal.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Credible minimum deterrent and not energy, according to the BJP, should be the central concern while considering the Indo-US nuclear deal. The BJP is of the view that given the situation in the subcontinent, and Pakistan in particular, giving up the India’s right for future testing is not desirable.
Pakistan, which is a nuclear state as well, could well be faced with a situation where break away groups may having access to the country’s nuclear arsenal or nuclear fissile material. Given the contentious relationship between India and Pakistan, the BJP believes that agreeing to the nclear deal would jeopardise India’s strategic security concerns.
The lead Opposition party has viewed the UPA government’s insistence of pushing through the deal as an attempt to dilute the Indian nuclear doctrine and credible minimum deterrent which has been evolved over the years.
It is not merely the current situation in Pakistan that gives more muscle to the BJP’s opposition to the nuclear deal. The party is also concerned about the situation of crisis that has come to typify Bangladesh and the increased Chinese involvement in both Nepal and Myanmar.
China too is a nuclear state and a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The BJP has in past warned the government about the “encircling of India by China.”
Recently BJP president Rajnath Singh warned that “China has developed a deep naval base from Pakistan’s Gwader to the Coco Island in Burma and right through Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has established posts to monitor the movement of Indian Navy.”
Given the reality of the subcontinent, the BJP finds it difficult to accept that the government would like to fritter away the hard won credible nuclear deterrent that has been developed. It feels that the nuclear programmes is the hard work of scientists amd firm political leadership in a mature democratic set up, which would use their nuclear arsenal in a responsible manner.
Pakistan, which is a nuclear state as well, could well be faced with a situation where break away groups may having access to the country’s nuclear arsenal or nuclear fissile material. Given the contentious relationship between India and Pakistan, the BJP believes that agreeing to the nclear deal would jeopardise India’s strategic security concerns.
The lead Opposition party has viewed the UPA government’s insistence of pushing through the deal as an attempt to dilute the Indian nuclear doctrine and credible minimum deterrent which has been evolved over the years.
It is not merely the current situation in Pakistan that gives more muscle to the BJP’s opposition to the nuclear deal. The party is also concerned about the situation of crisis that has come to typify Bangladesh and the increased Chinese involvement in both Nepal and Myanmar.
China too is a nuclear state and a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The BJP has in past warned the government about the “encircling of India by China.”
Recently BJP president Rajnath Singh warned that “China has developed a deep naval base from Pakistan’s Gwader to the Coco Island in Burma and right through Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has established posts to monitor the movement of Indian Navy.”
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Given the reality of the subcontinent, the BJP finds it difficult to accept that the government would like to fritter away the hard won credible nuclear deterrent that has been developed. It feels that the nuclear programmes is the hard work of scientists amd firm political leadership in a mature democratic set up, which would use their nuclear arsenal in a responsible manner.
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