Bush's comment to Congress proves our apprehensions: BJP

The BJP today said President George W Bush's communication to the US Congress has clearly proved its apprehensions that by signing the Indo-US nuclear deal the country's nuclear sovereignty would be undermined.  

Party chief Rajnath Singh said in his opening remarks at BJP's national executive here that the "revelations" have also proved that "concealing of facts" was not done by the US government but by the Indian Government.  

"The Prime Minister consciously misled the country, all the political parties and the Indian parliament on the issue," he said.  

Singh was apparently referring to Bush's communication to the Congress in which he had said that a provision in the Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement records certain political commitments concerning reliable supply of nuclear fuel given to India.  

The agreement does not, however, transform these political commitments into legally binding commitments because the agreement like other US agreement of its type is intended as a framework agreement.  

He also wondered whether by agreeing to terms of the NSG, whether the country had wilfully converted its unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing into multilateral international commitment.