10-10-2006, 10:55 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Left faces acid tests, keeps mum on N Korea </b>
Pioneer.com
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
Strange as it might seem that the CPI(M) despite its professed ideology of universal nuclear disarmament, hasn't come up with any official reaction on North Korea's nuclear test.
Though the Left, as a whole wants universal nuclear disarmament, the Left refusal to react to North Korea's tests have raised the eyebrows of the political observers here.
Incidentally,<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> the Left leaders in both CPI(M) and CPI had opposed the second Pokran nuclear tests in 1998 saying it would put Pakistan on nuclear path and signaled a clear deviation from New Delhi's Non-Aligned Movement ideology.</span>
Speaking to this reporter, CPI(M) leader and party's Central Committee member Nilotpal Basu said: "We have decided not give any official reaction on the issue."
Earlier, speaking to The Pioneer,<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> CPI's national secretary D Raja said: "When we did not support India's nuclear experiments in Pokhran, you don't expect us to support North Korea's tests because they are a communist state, but we have not made any official reaction on the issue."</span>
However, Raja blamed US for infusing the weaker states to go nuclear as it helped any nuclear powered states to enjoy protection from Washington's aggression and aggressive foreign policy.
<b>"You need to go to the roots and know why and how the American administration wants to divide the world into nuclear haves and have-not States," </b>Raja said.
However, <b>what seems to have pushed the Left big brothers to share the blame of being soft on this issue is that their eloquent silence would be seen as their soft attitude towards a Communist state given the track record of Left always taking up international events as national issues.</b>
Whether it was Israel's bombing of Lebanon or US-UK misdemeanour in Iraq or Iran's right to nuclear power development, the Left not only took up these issues but also forced the UPA to take a stance.
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Pioneer.com
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
Strange as it might seem that the CPI(M) despite its professed ideology of universal nuclear disarmament, hasn't come up with any official reaction on North Korea's nuclear test.
Though the Left, as a whole wants universal nuclear disarmament, the Left refusal to react to North Korea's tests have raised the eyebrows of the political observers here.
Incidentally,<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> the Left leaders in both CPI(M) and CPI had opposed the second Pokran nuclear tests in 1998 saying it would put Pakistan on nuclear path and signaled a clear deviation from New Delhi's Non-Aligned Movement ideology.</span>
Speaking to this reporter, CPI(M) leader and party's Central Committee member Nilotpal Basu said: "We have decided not give any official reaction on the issue."
Earlier, speaking to The Pioneer,<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> CPI's national secretary D Raja said: "When we did not support India's nuclear experiments in Pokhran, you don't expect us to support North Korea's tests because they are a communist state, but we have not made any official reaction on the issue."</span>
However, Raja blamed US for infusing the weaker states to go nuclear as it helped any nuclear powered states to enjoy protection from Washington's aggression and aggressive foreign policy.
<b>"You need to go to the roots and know why and how the American administration wants to divide the world into nuclear haves and have-not States," </b>Raja said.
However, <b>what seems to have pushed the Left big brothers to share the blame of being soft on this issue is that their eloquent silence would be seen as their soft attitude towards a Communist state given the track record of Left always taking up international events as national issues.</b>
Whether it was Israel's bombing of Lebanon or US-UK misdemeanour in Iraq or Iran's right to nuclear power development, the Left not only took up these issues but also forced the UPA to take a stance.
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