While the Left parties are mulling over withdrawing their support to the Indian governement, after more than a year of repeated threats to do the same, the Samajwadi Party (SP), a major party in the important State of Uttar Pradesh that has a good number of MPs in the Lok Sabha (Lower House) of the Indian parliament, has come forward to support the Congress-led government and prevent its fall, in case the Lefts actually pulled out.

The SP wanted to ascertain whether the Nuclear Deal is really helpful to India, before announcing support to the government. The party leaders approached none less than Dr. Abdul Kalam, the nuclear cum missile science hero of India. Dr. Kalam - who is also a former President of India and thus the Supreme Commander of all armed forces of the country - minced no words while describing the Indo-US Nuclear Deal as beneficial to India. Dr. Kalam went a step ahead and said, “Parties should keep national interest above politics while firming up their stand on the issue.”

Now, the SP is soon to declare its support to the government, once the talks on the kind of alliance are over.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had made it clear in the parliament that the Nuclear Deal with the US will not affect India’s nuclear sovereignty in any way and India has the right to conduct a nuclear test, if and when it feels necessary.

But, the Lefts are not happy with the deal, mostly because it is with a country which they have always opposed on everything all through the past, towing the line of the erstwhile Communist Soviet Union. They are not able to alter their stand even though the present Russia itself is not opposed to India signing the Nuclear Deal with the US. Their demagogic stand has been preventing the government from signing the deal and finalizing it.

If the SP really comes forward to support the government on the Deal, it will significantly alter the political scene in the country.

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