The Left opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal continued unabated. In the recently held party congress, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat reminded his audience about his party’s successful opposition to the nuclear agreement and asserted that “the struggle to disentangle India from the ‘strategic embrace’ of the U.S.” would continue. Karat however clarified that it was not the objective of the Left parties to destabilise the government but only to stop the nuclear deal1.

• 1. V.S. Palaniappan, “We are not for destabilisation, we only want to stop nuclear deal, says Yechury,” The Hindu, April 2, 2008, at http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/02/stories/2008040260711700.htm