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Left launches campaign against Indian nuke pact

PAl.lAB BHAHAI HARYA, New Delhi
After snapping ties with India's Congress-led coalition government, the Irh parties yesterday embarked on a nationwide campaign to explain to people the reasons that prompted them to withdraw support lor the i uling alliance accusing it of undermining the country's independent foreign policy by pursuing a nuclear deal with the United States
Addressing a rally here, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat alleged the government was ignoring pressing issues like price rise and was "obsessed" with the nuclear deal.
Karat said the government and Congress party wanted to fulfil their promise to US President
George W Bush to push through the nuclear pact. "It is their primary aim and not tackling inflation or price rise."
He said the deal would "undermine' India's independent foreign policy and affect its strategic nuclear programme and allow American multinational firms engaged in nuclear technology to enter Indian market.
"Bush is also hustling India into the deal He is telling India to speed up as he is not going to stay as the American President for long", the Marxist leader said.
I he Left parties have launched a nationwide campaign against the UPA government detailing its "unkept promises" and "obsession" with the nuclear deal.
"We can't support a government
that is undermining our independent foreign policy," said Karat with reference to the nuclear deal.
"We will do everything we can to defeat this government in the trust vote (on July 22," he added.
In a veiled reference to Samajwadi Party whose support Congress has succeeded in enlisting on the issue of nuclear deal, Karat attacked the new-found friends of the UPA, and said those who had opposed the deal with them and now joined hands with Congress would regret.
"Government’s priority is to enter Into the nuclear deal and not to solve the economic crisis that the nation is facing," he said.
Top I^ft leaders, including CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan, addressed the meeting here where
they cited the UPA's "failures" in combating inflation, which is close to 12 percent. I hey also mentioned UPA failure to keep promises over the Common Minimum Programme (CMP)".
The campaign was launched to explain to people the reasons for withdrawing support and "explaining the UPA's pro-American and anti-people policies, which are resulting in price hike and other problems," Karat said.
During the course of the campaign, he said the Left will also place before the people an alternative to meet energy requirements for development and for putting an end to the economic policies pursued by the government which are "harmful to farmers, rural poor, workers and other sections".