New Delhi: Taking part in the trust vote debate in Parliament, CPM MP, Mohammad Salim said the Left had given the Government a debit card but that the Government had overdrawn on it.
He said that the Government had betrayed the Left, despite the support that the Left parties had awarded them over the last four years. He said that the Prime Minister was a dealer not a leader.
"A dealer looks at the deal, whereas a leader looks at the deal's history as well as its future implications and other consequences. It should be a deal between two countries not two individuals," Salim said.
"We didn't support the UPA to be conferred with a certificate of patriotism after four years. We supported the Government based on the Common Minimum Programme," he said while referring to the Prime Minister thanking Left leaders Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Surjeet in his opening speech.
He, like Advani said that the nuclear deal was not a part of the Common Minimum Programme, something which had been endorsed by UPA allies and which were the foundation principle of the UPA. He accused the Prime Minister of having another Common Minimum Programme and added the House, Left parties and the country were not bound by that Common Minimum Programme.
The CPI(M) MP from the Calcutta-Northeast constituency said, "The UPA should remember that the NDA was defeated because people were not happy with the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and its policies."
Salim also said that India's interest should not be decided on the basis of US diktats.
"The government earlier said the deal was important as the PM had made a personal commitment. It later said the deal was in national interest; now it is about who will get which post in the government. Is this what national interest is? I don't buy this," Salim stated.
Taking forth the stand of the Left, Salim also accused the Government of ignoring fuel price rise and inflation and becoming a one agenda Government.
"The Prime Minister told some regional newspapers recently that the Government was busy sorting out the political problems related to the Indo-US Nuclear deal and the IAEA safeguards agreement and so it couldn't focus on other issues," the CPI(M) member informed the House.
He further accused the US of trying to sell nuclear energy to India, which the world was not embracing. To back his claim, Salim referred to the projection made in the Annual Energy Outlook 2008 that by 2030, the world's nuclear energy will stand at 7.8 per cent, compared to 9.6 per cent in 2005.
Concluding his speech, Salim asked the Government not to depend on US and President Bush, but instead look after the Indian people.
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