That the communists, who had always opposed India’s nuclear weapons programme while backing those of Moscow and Beijing, and the BJP, which chose to quickly end India’s nuclear testing after May 1998 and proclaim that Washington was a “natural ally”, are the ones now shedding tears over India’s right to test tells us all we need to know about their political opportunism. Both the left and the right are being utterly dishonest in their refusal to see the answers to the questions they raise are written in stone in the 123 agreement.
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