Asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to make the nuclear deal a "prestige issue", BSP chief Mayawati today said the UPA should suspend further action on the agreement and leave it for the next government to finalise it.


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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>Claiming that the deal was a step to make India a "slave" of the United States, she said the country should hold its head high to safeguard its interests.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P>
</p><p class='TableClas'>"The Government and the Prime Minister should not make the deal a prestige issue. They should suspend the deal for the time being. Elections are near. Let the next government take a decision on it," she told a press conference here.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P>
</p><p class='TableClas'>She noted that the deal would also "hamper" the $ 7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project as the US was acting against Tehran in a "dangerous" manner. </P></p><p class='TableClas'></p></table>


Mayawati asks govt to suspend N-deal

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