Left argument on N-deal ‘absurd’: Congress

Hitting back at CPI(M), Congress said the Communist parties are indulging in irrational and ‘absurd arguments’ on the N-deal.

Hitting back at CPI(M) a day after its attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress said the Communist parties are indulging in irrational and ‘absurd arguments’ on the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Citing rising oil prices, the party justified the nuclear deal as being essential for the country’s energy needs and warned that the country’s economic growth was being endangered by ‘blind ideological obduracy’.

A day after Prakash Karat’s article attacking the Prime Minister appeared, Congress spokesman Veerappa Moily issued a seven-page statement countering the arguments forwarded by CPI(M) General Secretary.

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“The Left’s objections (to nuclear deal) are ideological rather than rational and it has fallen back on absurd arguments,” said the statement which quotes former President A P J Abdul Kalam as well as some scientists to defend the nuclear deal.

“If Russia and America, China and Pakistan and China and Russia are all busy signing civil nuclear deals, should India forego pursuing its interests? Obstructing the deal means that the nation’s energy security and its ability to withstand future oil price shocks would be further reduced,” Moily said.

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