New Delhi: The UPA Government and its Left allies have made peace signs to each other but talk of a mid-term election because of the vexed Indo-US nuclear just doesn’t end.
Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday indicated mid-term polls are likely if the Government and the Left failed to end their differences on the nuclear deal.
"Once we have exhausted all the options we will decide what to do. If not, then we will tell the nation 'you decide'," he said at a lecture on the ‘Indo-US Nuclear Agreement’ in Delhi University.
Sibal said Left leaders opposed the nuclear deal because of their ideology but the BJP was attacking the government without reason. "The Left has an ideology, BJP doesn't," he said.
"The Left parties say that you (the government) has become a pitthu (stooge) of the US, what if they turn off the nuclear fuel supplies in the future as they had done once. The Left parties say that you can have the deal with China or Russia but not with the US."
Sibal said the deal did not ban India from exploding an atomic device but clearly said that it will have to face the consequences for such a move. "Its the same like if you sit for exams and fail, you too have to face the consequences."
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