Biman Basu warns of taking 'extreme path' if UPA sticks to its stand

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Kolkata, Aug 24 (UNI) West Bengal Left Front Committee Chairman Biman Basu today warned that the Left parties would take the 'extreme path' if the UPA Government at the Centre did not budge from its stand on the Indo-US nuclear deal.

''Whether we will take the extreme path depends on the Congress.

The question is whether they are willing to proceed...we will be left with no option if the Government does not alter its stand,'' he told reporters.

Mr Basu, who is also a CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, however, did not elaborate on the nature of the extreme step.

Echoing what CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat had said, Mr Basu warned that the responsibility lay with the UPA for the possible consequences if the nuke deal got through in the Governing body and the General body meets of International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) in Geneva between September ten and 21.

In reply to a question, Mr Basu said the Left parties would go to the people with a campaign against the nuclear agreement, exhorting them that it would put the country's several internal policies under the US dictat.

''We shall make people understand that not only the country's foreign policy, but also other internal policies, including those regarding agriculture and education, will also be dictated by the US and how this will affect their livelihood,'' he said.

Mr Basu announced that the ruling Left Front would organise statewide programmes, including processions on September one in protest against the attempt to curb the country's sovereignty through the Indo-US bilateral nuclear deal.

The Front would also take out a jatha from Kolkata to Vizag and campaign in all districts between September four and eight against the Indo-US naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal.

The jatha, comprising 88 left leaders and workers, will traverse in two buses through Howrah, Jaleswar, Balasore, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Srikakulam, Waltair and Vizainagaram before reaching Vizag on September eight to converge with the members of another Jatha that will reach there from Chennai.

UNI

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