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Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday met External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, a day after the UPA-Left Committee virtually concluded discussions on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Their parleys, which staved off a breakdown between the Left and the ruling coalition for the time being, followed a series of meetings between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and top leaders of the party till late Wednesday night.
The meeting of the UPA-Left panel took place amidst deepening of the stand-off between the two sides with the Prime Minister keen on pushing forward the deal and the Left parties strongly objecting to it.
The discussions on all aspects of the deal have been completed by the Committee and its next meeting, to be convened in ‘due course’, will finalise the findings.
Political circles feel that the time for discussions with Left parties was now over and the ball was in the Government’s court. It has to take a political call on whether and when they want to break with the Left and go ahead with the deal, they said.
