On India securing the NSG waiver, he said the CPI(M)’s basic opposition was to the 123 Agreement with the US and the IAEA Safeguards Agreement and the NSG waiver were only steps to operationalise the agreement. He said the waiver was neither unconditional nor clean as claimed by the Government and was in conformity with the Hyde Act.

“The waiver has converted the voluntary moratorium on testing into a multilateral commitment. India has now agreed that any fuel supply agreement will be subject to periodic NSG review and subject to India’s moratorium on testing,” he said.

Karat said while India becomes a part of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty regime, which it has been describing as discriminatory for long, the restrictions on transfer of sensitive technologies would continue and there are no fuel supply assurances as claimed by the Government. “Similarly, India has also agreed to abide by an Additional Protocol with the IAEA that is yet to be even finalised, let alone signed, as part of the basis for the waiver. It is yet another step of surrender in the journey towards total surrender by operationalising the 123 Agreement,” he added.