India's Hindu nationalist opposition party Thursday called for changes in domestic laws to protect New Delhi's strategic options which it said would be impacted by U.S. laws once the nuclear accord with the U.S. gets operationalized.
L. K. Advani, a top leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), told party lawmakers that he believed India's Atomic Energy Act of 1962 should be amended to "insulate" New Delhi's strategic objectives.
"We should strengthen our laws, and, on the basis of those altered laws, renegotiate the 123 agreement (the civil nuclear accord with the United States)," Advani, a former deputy prime minister, said.
His party has until now been opposing the pact with the U.S. because of America's India-specific Hyde Act, which it said aimed at restricting New Delhi's nuclear testing options.
Advani, however, insisted that his party objections over the agreement did not stem from any "anti-Americanism".
Source: Xinhua
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