India's News.Net Saturday 5th July, 2008 (IANS) Days before deciding on withdrawing support to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, top Communist leaders Saturday turned to one of their core constituencies - West Bengal - meeting their comrades and addressing them on the India-US nuclear deal. The state, ruled by the Left Front for the last 31 years, saw hectic activity as Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat and his Communist Party of India (CPI) counterpart A.B. Bardhan spewed venom on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the nuclear deal. Karat said the Left was awaiting a response from External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on its July 7 deadline to the government to clarify whether it was going to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on...
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