“Clearly, the BJP was misleading the nation on the India-US nuclear deal, in an effort to mask its real pro-US imperialist stand. After all, it was the BJP-led NDA government that initiated the process of developing a strategic alliance of India with US imperialism. It was they who further strengthened relations with Israel...Such are the perfidious games that the BJP plays. What they say for public consumption is entirely different and, at times, the complete opposite of their real agenda and intentions,” it claims.

Lords of finance

An article claims that members of the global financial community are being directly inducted into political appointments, and that from occupying bureaucratic positions within an overarching political process they have now started moving directly into political positions.

It cites the example of the US saying President Barack Obama’s political appointees include people like Robert Rubin, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, who are indubitably members of the global financial community and who collectively are in complete charge of economic matters in the Obama administration.

“What is more surprising is the way the financial community has insinuated itself into political positions even in a country like India which had a prolonged anti-imperialist struggle whose legacy still remains, and where politics, admittedly electoral politics, is taken very seriously by the people.” it says.

“The case of Manmohan Singh is too well-known to be recounted here, but in recent years members of the financial community have been smuggled in through the Rajya Sabha route into the nation’s politics and kept in readiness for important political positions.

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