Allies against mid-term poll, says CPI
Jagdalpur
(Chhattisgarh),
Nov
5:
Communist
Party
of
India
General
Secretary
A
B
Bardhan
today
said
any
haste
in
implementing
the
Indo-US
nuclear
deal
before
concluding
the
talks
would
lead
to
mid-term
elections,
but
it
depended
on
the
UPA
Government.
''Neither the left parties nor other parties supporting the UPA government wanted mid-term elections. Nobody talked about mid-term poll on the issue of the nuclear deal'', he told to the sources.
The
sixth
meeting
of
the
UPA-Left
committee
on
nuclear
agreement
would
meet
on
November
16,
Mr
Bardhan
said,
adding
there
was
no
need
for
distress
as
talks
were
in
progress
and
some
solution
would
come
out
of
it.
The CPI leader said the United States wanted to go by its time-table, but our time-table quite varied. Solution to the vexed issue would take time, he added.
Mr Bardhan alleged that the UPA had done nothing concrete for the upliftment of tribals. Though the legislation to grant right to the forest dwellers had been enacted, but no rules for its implementation had been framed so far. The government had succumbed to pressure from wildlife and environalist lobby, he added.
UNI