Sangh Parivar

New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on wednesday
said that the communal agenda of the Left parties have been exposed
after the CPI(M)'s advice to the Samajwadi Party to oppose the nuclear
deal to save Muslim votes.

"Left parties have been exposed. The
CPI(M) says Mulayam Singh will anguish Muslim voters if they supported
the Indo-US nuclear deal. This is the line they have been pursuing all
the time and they are communal," senior party leader Venkiah Naidu said
here on wednesday.

"I wonder how could an international
issue be linked to a particular religion. Deal or no deal, it has
nothing to do with Hindus, Christians, Muslims or Sikhs. The issue has
to be decided by taking into account the interests of the nation," he
added.

"The statement is unfair, unjustified and BJP condemns it," Naidu said.

M K Pandhe, a member of the CPI(M)
Polit Bureau had cautioned Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
that his party might lose the support of Muslims if he decides to go
with the UPA on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

However, the CPI(M) on wednesday
distanced itself from the statement made by Pandhe saying his remarks
were not the views of the party.

"Remarks made by M K Pandhe, member,
Polit Bureau, on the nuclear deal issue on June 23 are not the views of
the party," party General Secretary Prakash Karat said in a statement
on wednesday.

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