No big hope from Left: BJP

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The saffron party on Tuesday said it has no "big hope" from the government's key outside supporters to corner the government on the Nuke deal. More... NEW DELHI: With Left parties refusing to respond to BJP's efforts to drive a wedge between them and UPA on Indo-US nuclear deal, the saffron party on Tuesday said it has no "big hope" from the government's key outside supporters to corner the government on the deal. "We do not have any big hope from them," senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra told reporters here, adding his party had received no response from CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat whom opposition leader LK Advani had spoken to enlist Left support for NDA's attempt to corner the government on the nuclear deal. A draft resolution calling for a vote on the nuclear pact was sent by Advani to Karat with the hope that those opposed to it would vote against it in Parliament, Malhotra quoted Advani as telling BJP MPs before today's Parliament session. Advani recalled that both Congress and Communists had opposed the 1998 nuclear tests when NDA was in power, Malhotra said. Advani said BJP had been a proponent of making India a nuclear state since 1966. The BJP leader pointed out that most of the MPs from different political parties were opposed to the pact. However, BJP leaders privately admit that there is little hope of securing the support from other opposition parties in the bid to put the government on the mat on the nuclear deal after Tuesday's meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Karat. The BJP, therefore, is left with no choice but to stage symbolic protests against the accord, they said. "There is no concrete plan left any more on the nuclear issue now when the Communists are in no mood to press for a vote," a senior BJP leader, who requested not to be named, said.

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left does this nautanki all the time