Government did not disclose whole truth on N-deal: CPI-M

The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Monday made a fresh attack against the United Progressive Alliance government over the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying it had not disclosed that it was mandatory to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency for the India-specific safeguard agreement.

"At the UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting in October-November on the deal, what was stated by the government side did not represent the whole truth. They did not say at that meeting that it was mandatory for the government to go to the IAEA as it is saying now," CPI-M politburo member and party's state secretary Biman Bose said.

"This shows that certain things were not disclosed to the committee," Bose told reporters after the ruling Left Front meeting.

"The Manmohan Singh government did not do the right thing," Bose added.

The Left coordination committee, Bose said, would be meeting in Delhi on July 4 to take stock of the situation.

"The meeting can be held a day earlier," he said.

Before that meeting, Bose said, the CPI-M would hold consultations with the Left parties.

The meeting had already been held with the CPI, he said, adding the CPI(M)-Forward Bloc meeting of central leaders was likely on Monday.

"Our meeting with Revolutionary Socialist Party is likely on Tuesday," he said.

The CPI-M leader said that the United National Progressive Alliance would meet in Delhi on July 3.

Criticising the Centre, Bose said, "Instead of being serious about tackling price rise and high rate of inflation which is a 13-year high, the Manmohan Singh government is busy pushing the Nuclear deal. This is not good for the country, nor for the Government and Congress party."

Bose said that the Left parties had decided to organise campaigns against the UPA government's failure to arrest price rise and inflation.

"The government has been ignoring vital issues like countering growing communalism in the country. This has led to the growth of such forces in Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan and some other states," he said.

"By its inaction, the UPA government has been helping communal forces to grow," the CPI-M leader said.

Replying to a question that if the Lok Sabha poll could be advanced and if the Left Front was prepared for it, Bose said the meeting had not discussed the elections.