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Last week’s meeting of the UPA-Left mechanism on the Indo-US nuclear deal caught CPI leader A B Bardhan on the wrong foot. Earlier in the day, he had, in response to a question on how long the Government was safe, quipped: “Definitely till 5 pm (the time of the meeting).” So, the likes of Lalu Prasad Yadav and others from the Congress-UPA camp poked him through the meeting that evening, asking him every 15 minutes whether the Government was safe. “It’s 5:30 Mr Bardhan, is the Government safe?” one would ask. Sometime later, another member would add, “It’s now 6 pm, Bardhan saab.” Red-faced the communist leader kept blaming the media in a feeble defence even as his irritated face revealed it all, recalls a committee member.

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