New Delhi: The UPA and Left are scheduled to discuss the Indo-US nuclear deal again on October 22. However, senior CPM leader Jyoti Basu on Friday said that the Centre has put the deal on hold.
He said: "There were serious differences on the nuclear deal and the situation had come to such a pass that the UPA Government was about to fall. I have heard they are not going to proceed with it and it is not taking place now. I am happy."
"I am happy that the Government has accepted the Left stand. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi have accepted the Left views. We want this Government to run another one-and-a-half years because we don't now want a mid-term election in the country," he was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Basu's statement comes a day after the AICC Media Department Chairman, M Veerappa Moily had said the deal was still alive.
Moily said the UPA, at a meeting, had decided to go for the nuclear deal. "There was no subsequent meeting to put it on hold or cancel it," he said.
As far as the controversial deal itself, Manmohan Singh had said on Thursday he had not given up hope and that a way out of the difficulties facing the pact had to be found.
(With inputs from PTI)
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