America will now get a free hand from UPA: Left

The CPM, in close coordination with other Left parties, would continue its struggle against ‘sinister designs’ of the Congress to sell the nation to US imperialism, it said.

Emphasizing that the Left parties were committed to safeguard the interests of the nation and the people, the daily said the Indo-US nuke deal would cause ‘immense’ harm to India’s sovereign foreign policy’ and claimed that the Leftists had brought the issues to the centrestage of national politics.

Charging the UPA with violating the Common Minimum Programme, it said the Left parties had aptly taken the decision to withdraw support from the government considering the issues affecting the interests of the country.

“Congress resorted to horse-trading, got the blessings of the corporate lobby, put in all efforts to keep Opposition MPs absent on the day of trust vote and finally tainted itself with the charge of bribe offers to BJP members inside the Lok Sabha.”

The daily alleged that the Congress-led UPA government largely depended on money power to ensure its survival.

Saying it was a ‘shame’ that the UPA government ensured its survival by ‘unfair means’, the Ganashakti said, “It remains a mystery how and why 10 MPs abstained from voting.”

Turning to the UPA government’s determined bid to bring India under the US strategic designs, the daily said, “It will now become a practice to propagate US interests in agriculture, education and trade and commerce.”

Moreover, it said, the US would get an opportunity to directly meddle in Indian foreign affairs ‘by means of the Hyde Act in relation to the Indo-US nuclear deal’.

“US will now get a free hand from UPA government to monitor India in all respects free of cost on a long-term basis,” it said.

The CPM asked all Left parties to continue the movement against the nuclear agreement as also the anti-people policies of the Centre.

“We will not relent in our movement inside and outside Parliament on these vital national issues,” the daily said.