CPI(M) gets TDP's backing over N-deal

NEW DELHI: Hectic consultations between Left parties and UNPA constituents over the Indo-US nuclear deal and its political fallout continued on Tuesday as a senior TDP leader assured CPI(M) that his party fully supported the Left stand in opposing the agreement.
    
Senior TDP leader and former MP Rammohan Rao met CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat here and is understood to have conveyed a message from TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu that the party backed the Left on the stand on the controversial deal.
    
After the meeting in which the political scenario was discussed, Rao told PTI that the stand of the Left as well as his own party remained unchanged. "Now the ball is in the government's court."
    
The CPI(M) has convened a meeting of its full Politburo to discuss the political fallout of the nuclear deal here on June 29, while the UNPA would meet on July three. The CPI's National Secretariat is also scheduled to meet in the first week of July.
    
Major UNPA constituent, Samajwadi Party, would take a decision on whether to support the UPA government on nuclear deal after the July three meeting.
    
"Neither we nor any other party has the document on the nuclear deal. Our knowledge on it is based on government's statements in Parliament. We will take a decision on it after meeting the UNPA allies on July 3," party President Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Tuesday.
    
Yadav would be meeting Left leaders during the course of his visit.