Differnces over N-deal will be sorted out : Mukherjee

Bhadreswar, West Bengal, Aug 12 (UNI) Asserting that the UPA-Left rift over Indo-US nuclear deal should not pose any threat to the Congress led coalition government, External Affairs minister Pranob Mukherjee today said that the two sides would sort out differences thorugh dialogue and remain united against the BJP.

" We do not think that the Left outcry over the nuke deal is any threat to the UPA government. It will continue to run as unitedly as it did in the past to check the communal forces like the BJP", he said while speaking at a programme of a local municipality at Telenipara in Hoogly district, some 30 kms northwest of Kolkata.

Assuring that he would be mediating between the UPA and Left to narrow down differecnes over the certain provisions of the 123 pact, Mr Mukherjee said it still remain a political necessity to ensure that the present government surbvived.

" It is out of poltical compulsion to check the communal parties like the BJP that several parties united to prop up the UPA government on the basis of a common minimum programme(CMP). When no such need will be felt this government will not exist. But we think it is still necessity for us", he said.

The External Affairs minister said several of the nine-point objections that the CPI(M) had raised in its mouthpiece in August last year had been addressed in the present form of the pact.

" But dialogue can continue if they still had differneces" he said.

Mr Mukherjee said the differences within the UPA had croped up also in the past but they were removed every time. " On such occasions I acted as a coordinator to sort out problem. I hope this time also we will be able to do that", he said this while the Cpi(M) MP, Roopchand Pal, who was on the dias looking at Mukherjee approvingly.

Mr Mukherjee's statement came two days after Prime Minister Monmohan Singh talked tough on the persistent Left opposition to the nuclear deal and dared them to withdraw support to the UPA government.

The programme was organised by Bhadreswar municipality to rename a road after S K Akbar Ali, who had served the civic body for 55 years in different capacities.

UNI