Left owes allegiance to countries outside India: Dikshit

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Keywords: Indo-US nuclear deal, Congress

Kochi: Criticising the Communist parties for their stand on the Indo-US nuke deal, senior Congress leader and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said they were opposing every step the UPA Government was taking to develop the country.

“Those who say they are fighting communal forces are trying to bring down the UPA Government. We cannot understand the ideology of the Communists. They are not the nationalists we thought they were,” she said addressing women Congress workers in Kerala.

Maintaining that the Congress has built the nation ‘brick by brick’, she said it was a shame to note that some partners of the ruling UPA do not see India in the same perspective as the Congress does.

“Why don't they want India to prosper, do well and sign the nuke deal?” she asked.

Dikshit alleged the Left parties owe allegiance to countries outside India and not India. “Why do they oppose it for India and not for their supposed friends — China and Russia?” she asked, adding: “They do something, mean something else and say a third thing.”

On the Nandigram issue, she said in West Bengal, there have been riots when poor farmers had not been given their rightful compensation for their land.

She alleged the Left parties had one set of parameters for their government in West Bengal, another for the country and yet another for the UPA government, she said.

Dikshit said Congress President Sonia Gandhi has given development a ‘human face’. Farmers and women of India have all got relief in the budget. “Thanks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India's growth rate has touched nine per cent,” she said.