Pune, June 5
Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani said today that he would have no objection to the signing of the much- debated nuclear deal with the US if it was renegotiated to allow the option of further nuclear testing.

“We have no problem with the supply of nuclear fuel from America for our reactors and for generation of atomic energy. But we have to ponder over at what cost we are going to get it,” Advani remarked at a book release function here.

Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for rejecting the BJP demand to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pokhran II, the 1998 atomic explosions by India conducted by the NDA government that made the country a nuclear power, Advani said his party attached similar importance to Pokhran I, that happened in 1974 under the rule of Indira Gandhi. Advani said the BJP would not accept a ban on “Pokhran III” as it would compromise India’s position as a nuclear power nation. “Remove this ban in the agreement by renegotiating the deal and we will not have objection,” he added. — PTI