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| Indo-US nuclear deal: Ball now in US Senate's court | | |
Washington, Aug 30 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assertion that the final legislation on Indo-US nuclear deal must conform "strictly" to the July 18, 2005 agreement and the separation plan has set the ball in the US Senate's court, a scholar at a premier think tank here has said.
"The ball has now been placed in the US Senate's court. It is up to the US Senate to decide how seriously it wants to take the demands of the Indian government, Anirudh Suri, a Junior Fellow in the South Asia Programme of Washington-based Carnegie Endowment said.
"The importance accorded by Singh to the concerns of other Parliamentarians and the scientific community and the categorical stances taken in his speeches will necessitate playing hard ball with the US," Suri said in his article titled 'All Eyes on the Senate as India Plays Hardball'.
The Senate, which will come from its summer recess on September 5 is expected to shortly thereafter take up the civilian nuclear deal.
Analysts believe that the deal per se will not be facing much of a trouble at the Senate, but that the real work will be at the conference stage between the Senate and the House where differences in substance and language will have to be hammered out.
The Bush administration has said that it will work at the conference stage to ensure that the final legislation is within the parameters of what President George W Bush and Singh agreed in July 2005.
"Singh has put himself in a good position for now, having addressed domestic concerns by sending a loud and clear message to the US that India will not go beyond what has already been agreed upon," Suri said in the his latest scholarly presentation. |
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