Editorial

EDITORIAL

Ranbir Manhas

Testing the Tested!

There has been a great noise going on in and around Indian Parliament on the issue of Nuke Deal popularly known as 123. As a consequence, not only the Opposition even different constituents of the ruling UPA are trying to corner the Prime Minister on the issue. The leftists are even threatening to come out of the coalition government on the Deal terming it as anti- national. Every common man in India is not aware about as to what exactly the intricacies and repercussions of this nuclear deal with America have been, but his heart says that the Deal could be against the national interest and this is not his whim his perception in fact

is based on some time tested sayings and proverbs. For long sixty years India has tried to remain non-aligned. We did not align even with our time tested and ideologically closer friend USSR because our farsighted leaders thought this would be in the best national interest and they were not wrong to think so. Today we have entered into a sensitive treaty with a country that has never been our friend making the deal suspicious and doubtful.

There are some other reasons also responsible for being suspicious about this deal. If seen in the light of old saying, “Testing the already tested is foolish”, we have depended on a nation that has always been friendly towards our enemies. Whether on Kashmir issue or on the issue of Bangladesh, America has supported our enemies. Why should we forget that we still observe Monday fast as asked by our late Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri to overcome the deficiency when America decided to stop supply of food grains to us on the instance of our enemies? Also, why should we forget that it was American fleet that had been moved towards Dhaka against us?

America has never proved to be a good friend. As true businessman America believes in giving less and taking more. It makes friends with a purpose and when that purpose is solved America starts showing horns. What happened to Qwait; what happened to Iraq; what happened to Afghanistan and what is happening to Pakistan now is an open secret. In the name of helping Pakistan against Indian aggression America has militarily entered Pakistan and now in the name of saving India from dragon’s danger America has succeeded in entering India’s atomic installations. Qwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have already reaped the bitter fruit of American friendship. Now is time for India to taste the bitterness.

Another thing that makes the deal suspicious for a common man is that if this could not clinch when Indira Gandhi, Narsimharao and Rajive Gandhi were the PMs then why it happened when a foreign lady is heading the UPA as its chairperson? Should we forget that British too had entered India through a physician friend and enslaved us for long two hundred years by spreading the’ tent’ for which permission was granted by our king in lieu of a small carton of Vaseline that had incidentally healed the wounds of one of our Rajkumaris (princesses)? As the past of America has been its overtures for India could be to rape it and not to make it a lifetime bed partner. It may not be possible to make a retreat so soon, but the dark deal must finally be said good bye and sooner we do it better it would be.