New Delhi: Ahead of the UPA-Left Committee meeting on Wednesday evening, top Left leaders met in New Delhi to chalk out their strategy, with the CPI-M accusing the US of putting pressure on India on the nuclear deal.
"They are pressurising us. They have set a timetable and they want India to work under the timetable," CPI-M leader A B Bardhan said when asked to comment on US Ambassador David Mulford's statement that time was running out for India on the deal.
Asked the same question, RSP's Abani Roy said, "US is in a hurry. Let our government decide. We are meeting in the evening in which we will convey our feelings to them. Left has always been saying not to go ahead without proper consultation. If they go ahead, lets see what will happen".
Besides Roy, the meeting is being attended by six members of the 15-member UPA-Left panel on the nuclear deal.
Earlier, CPI-M’s D Raja told PTI that it would be a 'breach of trust' if the government went ahead with negotiations on the India-specific safeguards agreement at the ongoing IAEA meet in Vienna.
The UPA-Left Committee was formed to go into the Left's concerns on the nuclear deal and the government had agreed that it would not operationalise the deal till the panel came out with its findings, he said.
The leaders of the Committee are expected to discuss the Hyde Act and its impact on the 123 Agreement and India's foreign and security policy in Wednesday's meeting.
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