Ahmedabad: Brinda Karat, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member alleged her political party was very serious on the nuclear contract and its demand for not operationalizing the transaction should not be taken as an “empty threat.”

While addressing to the media persons, Ms. Karat said the CPI (M) had right along assumed the stand that India should preserve a self-governing foreign rule and its power could not be permissible to be damaged through any accord.

She said the Common Minimum Programme for the Congress-led UPA government was devised in 2005 on the similar assumptions that it would not follow the foreign strategy of the former NDA authorities that was pushing India into the U.S.-led block.

Repeating that the “ball is in the Congress court,” Ms. Karat aforementioned her party want the existing administration to carry on for the whole term, allowed it decided to severely go after the Common Minimum Programme and did not diverge from the “set rules.”

She alleged the CPI (M) even had no problem with the Indian delegate assisting the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) planned next month, but the administration should not place any “India-specific” program at the gathering.

She incriminated the UPA management of assaulting the “dharma” of alliance and believed it should be capable of honoring the standpoints of all its cooperators and those backing from outside.

She discarded that her party had anything to perform with the BJP and said the CPM could not be bracketed out with the BJP that had “changed its stand” on the nuclear deal “while we have maintained our consistent stand.”