Country should listen to voices of wisdom on nuke deal: PM

NEW DELHI: In a virtual message to BJP and Left parties opposed to the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday hoped the country would listen to the voices of wisdom.
    
"I hope the country will listen to the voices of wisdom," he told reporters without naming any party.
    
He made the remarks when asked to comment on former President A P J Abdul Kalam's remarks that India should go ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal as it would give a boost to country's nuclear programme.
    
Singh said Kalam was "a distinguished scientist and had been intimately involved with the Pokhran explosion".
    
Asked whether the Left should also listen to the "voices of wisdom", he said "people should listen to it".
   
Kalam had said India should go ahead with the nuclear deal and rejected suggestion that it would undermine the country's sovereignty.