Prime Minister's concern for increased power requirement in the time to come appears genuine. The growing urbanization and increased tempo of development is bound to push up our energy requirement which it is impossible to meet from domestic and even conventional sources. If we have to develop at a pace which could give us 9% GNP on a sustained basis we have to ensure that nuke deal with America is successfully concluded.

It seems left parties are opposing the deal on imaginary ground that it would compromise the sovereignty of the country.These unfounded fears of left allies and the opposition have been set at rest many a time by various leaders of the UPA Government including Sh. Pranab Mukerjee and now by the Prime Minister himself. It is fairly expected that no Government worth the name can do any thing which might jeopardize the sovereignty of the nation. On the other hand as Dr. Manmohan Singh has rightly observed we will be failing in our duty to the country and to the posterity if we do not make sincere efforts to meet the energy requirement of the nation on which depends the overall development to get an honoured place for India in the comity of nations.

The national interest therefore requires that the nuke deal with USA which is hanging fire for such a long time mainly owing to the stiff opposition of the Left should be brought to successful conclusion without loss of time.