Left may pull the plug earlier if deadline rejected: CPI

Left parties have said they would withdraw support the moment the Government went ahead with operationalising the nuke deal.

On reports that Singhvi had described the setting of the deadline as 8216;discourteous,8217; he said, 8221;we did not want to pull the rug from the Government. Who is teaching us courtesy? We don8217;t want lessons in courtesy from Congress.8221;

He said it was decided in the last Left-UPA meeting that before going to the IAEA, the Government would show the text of its proposals to the Left parties but had not done so.

Asked what Left parties would do if the Government ignored the July seven deadline, Bardhan said they would meet either on July eight or nine to decide the next course of action.