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"This Government Will Last Its Full Term"

CPI(M) general secretary on his party's working relationship with the UPA government and the Indo-US nuclear deal

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"This Government Will Last Its Full Term"
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CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat will complete three years in office next month. Ahead of the party's Coimbatore meet, he spoke to Outlook about the CPI(M)'s working relationship with the UPA government and the Indo-US nuclear deal. Excerpts:
Compared with the confrontationist line the Left has adopted with the UPA, it enjoyed a harmonious equation with the Deve Gowda-led United Front government. Some people say it was because your predecessor, H.K.S. Surjeet, was more flexible....
People call you a hardliner...
First you said if the UPA went to the IAEA, the Left would withdraw support immediately. Later, you agreed to let the government hold talks with the IAEA. Was it flexibility or a desire to avert an early election?

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You recently shared a platform with the UNPA....
Will you join hands with the UNPA for the general elections?
You disagree with the liberal economic policies of the Congress. How is the TDP, which is part of the UNPA, any different?
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