Manmohan should be blamed for crisis: Karat

He said the schedule set by the US was 8220;impelling the Prime Minister to go ahead regardless of the consequences8221;.

In an article in the forthcoming issue of CPIM organ People8217;s Democracy, he maintained that the urgency to approach the Board of Governors of IAEA 8216;runs contrary8217; to the understanding arrived at in November 2007 between Congress and the Left leaderships that the government would go to the IAEA for talks but not proceed to get the Board8217;s approval.

Karat said the reason for such urgency was the insistence of the Bush Administration that India complete the procedures for the safeguards agreement with the IAEA so that the Americans can take the step of formally initiating the process in the Nuclear Suppliers Group to get the waiver for nuclear trade with India.

8220;The Bush administration knows very well that there is no time for the 123 Agreement to be passed by the current US Congress,8221; he said.