BJP questions Ramesh statement in Parliament on climate summit

Accusing environment minister Jairam Ramesh of misrepresenting facts before Parliament, BJP today said with the prime minister's "admission" that Copenhagen summit was not satisfactory, India should take a lead in bringing Kyoto Protocol "back on track".
    
"The prime minister has wittingly or unwittingly admitted that the Copenhagen summit was not satisfactory. Does this mean that environment minister Jairam Ramesh had misrepresented facts before Parliament that India's interests were safe?
    
"The prime minister should direct him to present the correct picture before the nation," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
    
He said after prime minister Manmohan Singh's "own admission" that the climate change talks were not satisfactory, India should take a lead in "bringing the Kyoto Protocol back on tracks with the help of other developing nations."
    
Inaugurating the 97th Indian Science Congress at Thiruvananthapuram yesterday, Singh acknowledged that results of last month's climate summit had left no one satisfied and the progress made was, "limited."