Press Trust of India
Jaipur, Sep 7: Expressing her apprehensions about the Indo-US nuclear deal, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said that if the party come to power it will renegotiate the pact.
Making a scathing attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Swaraj alleged that Singh for his own prestige has put India's sovereignty at stake on the nuclear deal issue.
Though the 16 years embargo against India has been lifted by NSG at Vienna meeting but the country has lost its sovereignty, Swaraj said at a press conference here.
Dismissing UPA's claim that the deal was historic, Swaraj compared it with Moghul emperor Jehangir regime when he had permitted the East India Company for trading and in the process India became a slave for more than 250 years.
She said after the exposure of US President George Bush letter's to Burney it became clear that if India go for nuclear tests the deal would be nullified.
The BJP, Swaraj said, will oppose the deal in the parliament. It will also hold rallies and meetings to create public awareness about its impact on India's interests.
Replying to a query, she said there is difference between the BJP and Left's opposition to the deal. "The reasons and intentions of both the parties are different," she said.
When asked why BJP is opposing the deal when it itself had initiated it, Swaraj said, though her party had initiated the deal but it is against India opening up 35 of its reactors for inspection to IAEA. BJP wanted only one of the reactors to be under the purview of IAEA inspection, she said.