New Delhi, May 15
Ahead of the UPA-Left meet on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI has renewed its threat to withdraw support if the government moved ahead on the issue.

“They will have to do it without us,” party general secretary A.B. Bardhan said, when asked what the Left would do if the government ignored their objections and went ahead on the deal.

Asked whether the Left would move a no-confidence motion against the government in that case, he said: “It means nothing of that sort.”

To another question, whether the Left would go with the BJP if they moved such a motion, he said: “We generally don’t” go with the saffron party. However, Bardhan said, “If that happens, we will see at that time.”

The veteran communist leader said this in an interview on Karan Thapar’s ‘India Tonight’ programme on CNBC TV18.

He said the outside supporters would take a “hard” stand against the government on the nuclear deal as well as the major issues like price rise and the agrarian crisis.

“It will be a hard decision,” he added.

Bardhan said, “You are forgetting that we are nine months away from elections. I don’t see which political party will move a no-confidence motion when elections are just nine months away.” — PTI