Washington: Indian-American community leaders, showing worries over the stand taken by the Indian political parties on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, stated that the agreement cannot be renegotiated as it may not get okayed by the US Congress or the next President cannot get it authorized as the probabilities are almost zero.

Ashok Mago, Chairman of the US-India Political Forum said, “Parties opposing it are placing their political interest over national interest. If this Bill comes back for any reason, the present Congress or the next President cannot get it passed as the chances are virtually zero.”

Calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a man of truthfulness, Mago added, “For any one to think for a second that Prime Minster Manmohan Singh will agree to sign an agreement which is not in the national interest of India should be unthinkable.”

Expressing his revelation over the late response of the political parties on the arrangement, Mago said, “Why political parties in India waited this long to oppose it now so strongly as to want to kill it, when everyone knew the terms of the Hyde Act.”

“This bill should be looked as an energy bill to provide India the clean energy it desperately needs to keep up with the pace of its economic growth,” he also said.