New Delhi: The Indo-US nuclear draft bill may have won its first round in Washington on Tuesday night, but the CPM has expressed serious reservations on the bill in its new form.
The party has expressed its apprehension over the clause that the presidential waiver will 'cease to be effective' if India conducts a nuclear test.
India's soverignity on such a matter, the party believes, will be compromised.
The CPM also says that the bill states that the US President must first determine that India and the IAEA have 'concluded a safeguards agreement'.
This, they say, runs contrary to the asssurance given by Dr Manmohan Singh in both Houses of Parliament that India will approach IAEA for safeguards only after the US endorses the July 18 nuclear deal.
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