Jaya opposes Indo-US nuclear deal

Chennai, Dec 15: Opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa today called for an amendment to the Constitution to ensure that any treaty with a foreign country was placed before Parliament for ratification.

''If this is not done, secret deals will continue to be concluded against the country's interests,'' she said in a statement here.

Claiming Indian scientists and all opposition parties, including the Left had been raising serious objections to various clauses of the Indo-US nuclear deal as they impinged on the nation's sovereignty, she said as there was no dearth of raw material in India for nuclear technology and as nuclear power plants had been set up in various states, many scientists had made direct appeals to the Prime Minister not to take any precipitate decision relating to the field of atomic power. Despite this, the Union Government continued to further the cause of the Indo-US nuclear deal, she charged.

Stating that the deal was of no benefit at all to India, Ms Jayalalithaa said the moment the deal came into effect, all information concerning India's atomic plants, their research data, particulars of operations, production and their functioning and waste from the atomic plants, would be in the hands of the US.

By agreeing to the deal, the UPA Government had furnished to another country a 'Slave Charter' written by its own hands, she charged.

UNI

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