• Lalu Prasad: Such words from Yashwant Sinhaji are not right. He was PA to our leader and Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur

• Sinha: I was Principal Secretary to Karpoori Thakur. Laluji used to come to my room with requests. He even sought the release of a person who had been jailed under MISA

What they said

• Arun Shourie (BJP): Govt went for a strategic relationship with US without a strategy, ended up in strategic subservience

• D Raja (CPI): Agreement part of US grand design for Asia, wants India to become military ally

• Supriya Sule (NCP): Future generations will remember this govt with gratitude for deal

• Kanimozhi (DMK): Karunanidhi believes that the process of reconciling differences over the 123 agreement will not and should not unsettle the govt or disturb governance

• Ram Jethmalani (Ind): Deal is the best thing to have happened to India in last five decades

• Manohar Joshi (Shiv Sena): Deal makes India a junior partner of the US

• DMK chief Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi’s maiden speech backing the deal saw the PM send her a congratulation note through Minister Anand Sharma. She walked to the PM’s seat and thanked him. Brinda Karat, D Raja and senior leaders patted her on the back

• SP’s Amar Singh threw a tantrum over his turn to speak and he was supported by CPM’s Brinda Karat. Prof P J Kurian, who was in the chair, wondered why was Karat getting agitated. “Comrade Karat has every right to speak on my behalf,” Singh said

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