The past few months have been a roller coaster ride for Manmohan singh and his cabinet collegaues. Manmohan Singh's persistence towards signing the nuclear deal had almost robbed him of his prime ministerial post. His hard work has paid off with the unconditional waiver by Nuclear Suppliers Group at Vienna on 6th of September.
Nulear Suppliers Group (NSG) has agreed to waive the restrictions for the supply of Nuclear fuel, reprocessing for India without any restrictions on our Nuclear Arms programs. Any ban or revoking of fuel supply, reprocessing techniques, in case of India restarting Nuclear arms programme, be based on the consensus of 45 member NSG. Consensus is highly unlikely since India can bank on some nations like Russia, France for help.
The unconditional waiver by NSG is certainly a significant achievement for India as a nation. Let's not forgot the fact that NSG formed as a response to the Nuclear tests conducted by India, at Pokhran, in 1974. Also one of the primary motives of Warsaw plenary of NSG in 1992 in adopting the full safeguards agreement was to deprive India of nuclear fuel. The diplomacy and negotitations carried by Foreign Secretary Shiva Sankar Menon, Chairman of Atomic energy commission Anil Kakodkar and his team has been comendable.
NSG waiver doesn't no mean that we are going to have a cake walk, instead it is actually a path treaded with lot of landmines like Berman.
What irks me is the blatant criticism from all quarters that the waiver surrenders India's sovereignty. For those who pose a question like that, please answer the below questions,
1. Did the atom bombs possessed by us in any way deter the Terrorists attacked Indian parliament on December 11, 2001. We didn't even retaliate by destorying the terrorist camps in POK and the fact which has to remembered was that BJP was in power then.
2. Has our nuclear arsenal made China to withdraw from the Indian territories occupied during the 1963 Indo-China war? Or has it made China recognize Nagaland as a state of India?
3. Has our nuclear arsenal helped to solve the internal problems like Maoists, ULFA & Naxals? (I will not criticize these groups, will discuss about them in a separate post).
4. Or has the principles of left made West Bengal one of the prosperous states in India? I am not against the principles of a socialism, I am indeed one of the most ardent socialists. The fact is I believe the CPI(M) is not a proper representatives of the socialists.
One thing which the so called communists tend to forget is that the NSG waiver is an absolute neccessity to procure fuel from any country, including Russia.
In our country millions of people are living without proper food, water and shelter. At this time, do we really need to test more nuclear devices and announce to world that we are a nuclear power house? Just ask yourself..
Nulear Suppliers Group (NSG) has agreed to waive the restrictions for the supply of Nuclear fuel, reprocessing for India without any restrictions on our Nuclear Arms programs. Any ban or revoking of fuel supply, reprocessing techniques, in case of India restarting Nuclear arms programme, be based on the consensus of 45 member NSG. Consensus is highly unlikely since India can bank on some nations like Russia, France for help.
The unconditional waiver by NSG is certainly a significant achievement for India as a nation. Let's not forgot the fact that NSG formed as a response to the Nuclear tests conducted by India, at Pokhran, in 1974. Also one of the primary motives of Warsaw plenary of NSG in 1992 in adopting the full safeguards agreement was to deprive India of nuclear fuel. The diplomacy and negotitations carried by Foreign Secretary Shiva Sankar Menon, Chairman of Atomic energy commission Anil Kakodkar and his team has been comendable.
NSG waiver doesn't no mean that we are going to have a cake walk, instead it is actually a path treaded with lot of landmines like Berman.
What irks me is the blatant criticism from all quarters that the waiver surrenders India's sovereignty. For those who pose a question like that, please answer the below questions,
1. Did the atom bombs possessed by us in any way deter the Terrorists attacked Indian parliament on December 11, 2001. We didn't even retaliate by destorying the terrorist camps in POK and the fact which has to remembered was that BJP was in power then.
2. Has our nuclear arsenal made China to withdraw from the Indian territories occupied during the 1963 Indo-China war? Or has it made China recognize Nagaland as a state of India?
3. Has our nuclear arsenal helped to solve the internal problems like Maoists, ULFA & Naxals? (I will not criticize these groups, will discuss about them in a separate post).
4. Or has the principles of left made West Bengal one of the prosperous states in India? I am not against the principles of a socialism, I am indeed one of the most ardent socialists. The fact is I believe the CPI(M) is not a proper representatives of the socialists.
One thing which the so called communists tend to forget is that the NSG waiver is an absolute neccessity to procure fuel from any country, including Russia.
In our country millions of people are living without proper food, water and shelter. At this time, do we really need to test more nuclear devices and announce to world that we are a nuclear power house? Just ask yourself..
