Dissent Threatens U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Deal

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Source: Washington Post

Delhi Parties Say Pact Limits Sovereignty

After two years of painstaking negotiations, a historic nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India appears to be unraveling as a broad spectrum of political parties calls on the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to scrap the deal, saying it limits the country's sovereignty in energy and foreign policy matters.

The landmark accord that just weeks ago looked like a major foreign policy triumph for this energy-starved subcontinent has become a political liability for India's fragile ruling coalition.

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In return, the Bush administration firmed up a strategic alliance with a country that in many ways is expected to shape the future of Asia. India's nuclear program serves as a check on Pakistan's, as well as a counterbalance to China's nuclear prowess.

But in the latest twist of the saga, an alliance of Indian communist parties has called on Singh's government to scrap the deal. The parties say India's sovereignty was compromised by the agreement because it includes a condition that all but requires the government's cooperation in U.S. foreign policy matters.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082501192.html?hpid=topnews

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1. I've been waiting for the Communist parties of India to rise up

India is very much a Socialistic system

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2. ZOMG-Is this going to mean NO MANGOES?!?!!!111?

...Because I just needs me some Indian mangoes mangoes mangoes!!!1!

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3. The communists are fringe parties ....

They are just posturing ... the deal will go through