Editorial March 2006

Ungluing the UPA

Speculation is rife in Delhi's political circles regarding the prospects of a snap poll as it is believed that the arrangement between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Left is beginning to unravel. That it cannot anymore bear the strain caused by USA's insistence that India vote against Iran in Vienna and the shifting goal posts of the civilian nuclear deal that entails separation of nuclear reactors for civilian and military purposes and placing the former under full scope safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.