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Left in the lurch, polls are right
People's mandate is the only way to break UPA-Left deadlock on Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Gulf News
- Published: 23:41 June 29, 2008
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and the Left parties have now reached the end of the road on the Indo-US nuclear deal. It is time for India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his allies to prepare and endorse their credentials by the people via a mandate.
The Left has always believed in tough love and their stance on the nuclear deal with the government has been unyielding. The decision to call for early polls is now Singh's way of re-emphasising his authority.
True, the polls may cost the exchequer and the Congress Party - given the rising cost of inflation - but there is no guarantee that the situation will ease up. Going ahead with the nuclear deal may not remedy price rise but it will definitely alter the view that the UPA is impotent.
Moreover, the government's foreign policy, held to ransom by communist ideologies, will lose credibility as the G8 summit approaches next month.
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