The Left parties on Tuesday asked the government to come clean at Wednesday's crucial meeting of the United Progressive Alliance-Left panel on the Indo-US nuclear deal on the contentious issues pertaining to the 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act and rejected the allies' reported formula for an rapprochement. The poll-wary UPA allies are understood to have suggested a government-Left patch up by which the government will not go ahead on the nuclear deal after completing the pending business on the India-specific safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. This view emerged when UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi [Images] took the initiative after the Left leaders called on Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi in Chennai and urged him to mediate to end the standoff between the government and the Left...
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