After putting the UPA Government on notice on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI(M) has said the Congress and the main Opposition BJP have embarked on a “dangerous policy” of joining hands with US imperialism.“Abandoning much of the vision of the freedom struggle and the Constitution, the ruling classes today are becoming more enamoured of India becoming a ‘great power’ with the help of the USA. Non-alignment, which had as its core an independent foreign policy, is being bartered away with the current pre-occupation of becoming a reliable ally of the US,” CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said in an article in the party organ People’s Democracy.He said the BJP and Congress during their turns in government “have embarked on the dangerous policy of collaborating with US imperialism”. The economy, polity and sovereignty were being affected “by this close embrace with the Bush administration. It is ironical that the current inheritors of the Congress legacy are at the forefront of dismantling whatever remains of the Nehruvian vision of an independent and self-reliant India,” Karat said.
