UPA-Left to meet today on nuclear deal

The crucial meeting of the UPA-Left committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal will be held here on Monday where the government is expected to hand over the Left leaders copies of the draft India-specific safeguards agreement it has reached with the IAEA.


The Government is also likely to brief them on the over three-month long negotiations it held with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the safeguards agreement.

The meeting comes in the backdrop of major Left parties asserting that they would withdraw support to the Congress-led government if it went ahead with the nuclear deal with the US. However, the Left parties have been saying that they would not be responsible if the government falls.