The Left parties will hit the streets on Tuesday with the twin agenda of showing the impact of US imperialism on India (in which nuclear deal figures dominantly) and to put the onus on the Congress in saving the Government while showing that the BJP is no different when it comes to fostering US interests in India.

The campaign will also focus on countering Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s repeated statement that “the Indo-US nuclear deal will strengthen India’s energy security” and highlight the point as to “how a man (US President George Bush) who is not friendly to his own people has suddenly become India’s best friend” as stated by the Prime Minister.

Top Left leadership, including CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his CPI counterpart A B Bardhan, will be spanning out from Kolkata to Chennai on Tuesday to meet in Visakhapatanam on September 8. A separate mass campaign by the CPI(M) will follow this.

The parties, which are also testing waters for elections, will primarily focus on how the US imperialistic designs have been working on India, and the nuclear deal happens to be an important cog in such a wheel. The campaign will also urge the Government to implement the CMP and take into account that a “majority in Parliament” does not support the deal.

Setting the tone of the mass campaign, the CPI(M) campaign material says, “This deal should be seen as part of Manmohan Singh Government’s attempt to integrate India more closely with the US.”

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