Yechury: It’s UPA’s call on mid-term polls

The CPI (M) on tuesday said it was up to the congress and the UPA Government to decide whether...

The CPI (M) on tuesday said it was up to the congress and the UPA Government to decide whether or not to set the agenda of mid-term elections.

“Our agenda is nuclear deal, (Government going ahead with the operationalisation of the deal) and not destabilising the Government,” CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here after inaugurating a convention for activists of the party’s students wing SFI from the northern states.

Earlier, talking to the SFI members, Yechury said: “The discussion is going on. We think it will continue. The UPA itself said that the findings of the political committee will be taken into account in operationalising the nuclear deal.”

Yechury said that there is a campaign going on in the country that the nuclear deal is very essential for the country’s energy security. “Nuclear energy is not cost-effective. India needs to spend Rs 2,30,000 crore for importing nuclear reactors. With this money we can start 2.5 lakh Navodaya Vidyalayas or 20,000 hospitals. Thus if the deal is operationalised, the Government would be denying the basic rights of health and education to crores of people,” Yechury said.