Opportunism vs Pragmatism

The opportunistic, insane and anti-national opposition of the NDA and the Left Front to the Indo-US nuclear deal is another example of partisan politics drowning India in a pool of messy and humiliating complications. This strident disagreement threatens to block the passage of a favourable deal in our national interests, which will dismantle the nuclear apartheid prevailing against India for the last three decades and lay the foundation of the emergence of India as a globally relevant nation. Beijing's discomfiture at the prospect of the operationalisation of the deal is an unambiguous indication of China viewing the deal as one which grants India enviable concessions, which Beijing would never want to see the light of the day. The Left's sincere kowtowing to China's world view is an open secret, and the government would be committing a momentous blunder if it lets the deal slip by, thereby nullifying the painstakingly admirable efforts taken by our diplomats in the negotiating process, and also eroding India's credibility to such an extent from which she will find it excruciatingly difficult to recover.