INDIA – US 123 AGREEMENT

INDIA – US 123 AGREEMENT

The BJP and the Left parties are making a hue and cry about the 123 Agreement between India and the US.

BJP’s stand can well be understood and tolerated. They were the originators of this agreement that could not be finalised and concluded when the NDA was in power. The noise that they raise now is out of frustration and pure politics.

The objections of the CPM have a different connotation (Forget the CPI since they do not count for much in Indian politics).

The Indian communists did not raise their voice against the major defence agreements India had for decades with the communist USSR. Even today whatever nuclear agreement India may propose with Russia will be acceptable to our Left.

Similarly, if India should propose a nuclear agreement with China on the same lines as the 123 Agreement with the US, the Left in India will surely rejoice.

As per the US-China 123 Agreement (signed in 1985 and ratified by the US Congress in 1998), China did not get fuel supplies; China did not obtain reprocessing rights; and China had accepted inspections. (Mr. George Fernandes – No one was shot in the head in China for such an agreement!!!)

On all counts the Agreement between India and the US is advantgeous to India. Yet the Left objects!

Is it possible and perhaps probable that the Indian Left is acting under the orders of China to sabotage the India-US Agreement thus ensuring China remains the sole major power in Asia?