BJP denied the double standard used in Nuc-deal
On Saturday the latest target of the WikiLeaks expose, the BJP dismissed reports that it had adopted double standards in its opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal and demanded that every bit of the diplomatic cables relating to India should be probed.
Reacted strongly on Saturday to the expose its leaders spoke in two voices on India-US relations. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on WikiLeaks revelations that the UPA bribed MPs to win the 2008 parliamentary trust vote.
BJP spokesperson Tarun Vijay told IANS, “There never were two stands of BJP on the nuclear deal. All BJP leaders followed one single official line, that was to oppose the bill. Even on the bill, it was the BJP’s stand that made the government accept 16 amendments to make it more stringent.”
Vijay denied the latest revelations were an embarrassment for the party which has launched a scathing attack on the government over the earlier WikiLeaks expose relating to the 2008 trust vote in parliament.
“We firmly demand an inquiry into every bit (of WikiLeaks expose) that has appeared. It is an embarrassment for the UPA and victory of BJP’s stand on cash-for-votes,” Vijay said.
He even refused to comment on the 28 December remarks of the party’s national executive member Seshadri Chari, cited in the WikiLeaks expose of cables sent by the US mission in Delhi, in which the BJP functionary has been quoted as telling a senior US official not to read too much into the party’s foreign policy resolution.
“I do not know who said what. The party never wavered from its official position on the nuclear bill,” he said.
