prakash karath

prakash karath is general secretary of cp(i)m. India will judge Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for not honouring his assurances to parliament on the US-India civil nuclear cooperation deal, CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has said in his latest editorial in the party mouthpiece Peoples Democracy.Describing Dr. Singhs announcements on the deal as an outright betrayal of national interests, Karat says: What we are asking is simply this -- the Prime Minister must stand by his own assurances to the Parliament. Otherwise, as he is fond of repeatedly stating in the parliament, history shall judge him. Prior to that, however, the Indian people shall surely do so.The issue is not one of accepting the CPI(M)s or the Lefts critique of this nuclear deal as being against the fundamental interests of India and reducing India into a subordinate ally of US imperialism. The issue is whether the prime minister will remain loyal to his own assurances to his own people made in Parliament? he said.Karat warns that the betrayal would have serious consequences, both for Indias future as an independent nation and for the future of Parliamentary democracy itself.The Prime Minister can no longer mask the series of departures that he and his government have made from the assurances he himself had given to Parliament and, thus, to the people of India, he said.The CPM leader said, The Prime Minister can no longer mask the series of departures that he and his government have made from the assurances he himself had given to parliament and, thus, to the people of India.