Govt, Left resume dialogue to defuse crisis

New Delhi, Aug 27: The Left parties and key government leaders were today holding crucial negotiations to find ways and means to end the current stand off over the Indo-US nuclear deal that has threatened the survival of the UPA regime.

The hectic parleys between the government and the Left parties to thrash out the UPA-Left logjam are almost certain to lead to the setting up of a political mechanism to evaluate the Hyde Act and its implications on India.

CPI leaders AB Bardhan, Gurudas Dasgupta and D Raja held about one and a half hour meeting with government interlocutor Pranab Mukherjee.

The mechanism will avail the services of the technical and diplomatic experts to be announced by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress core group brief her about the Left viewpoint, sources told UNI