‘It’s for Govt to decide whether to fall into crisis’

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechuri said it was for the UPA Government to decide whether it would like to ‘plunge into a crisis’ by going ahead with operationalisation of the Indo-US nuclear deal.

“Now It is the government to decide whether to plunge into crisis or not as we have asked them not to operationalise the agreement till the committee, formed to study the implications of Hyde Act and other related issues, completes its work. This is our understanding with them,” Yechury said after meeting CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu at the latter’s residence.

Asked what Left parties would do if the government went ahead arid the talks on India-specific safeguards agreement with discussions relating to India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA, he said it would not be held at the forthcoming meeting of the international nuclear watchdog in Vienna this month.

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“It would not be discussed in the September meeting of the IAEA”, Yechury said.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar is scheduled to travel to Vienna later this month to attend an IAEA conference.