The Bush administration has accepted New Delhi's call for some more time it says it needs to forge a national consensus on the nuclear deal.
Even as India's External Affair Minister Pranab Mukherjee left Washington DC on Tuesday, White House spokesperson Dana Perino agreed that there is still time remaining to consummate the deal, rejecting the proposition that a ''now or never'' moment had arrived.
''Well, we have a little bit of time before we have to say 'now or never.' We've got several months to continue to work with them,'' Perino told reporters when asked for an update on Mukherjee's meeting with Bush. The comment was a departure from earlier exhortations from U.S officials and lawmakers that the clock was running out to consummate the deal.
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