Prime Minister meets BJP leaders, briefs about N-deal

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met an Opposition delegation led by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and told them that Indo-US nuclear deal would have no impact on the country?s strategic nuclear programmes.

Written by Political Bureau

July 27, 2007 00:00 IST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met an Opposition delegation led by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and told them that Indo-US nuclear deal would have no impact on the country?s strategic nuclear programmes.

After a two-hour long meeting with the Prime Minister, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said his party?s apprehensions had not yet been allayed completely. ?Our apprehensions have not yet been addressed completely,? he said.

?They (the government) have not shared with us the text of the agreement,? he said.

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