Scores of Left-wing protesters in an eastern Indian state left for the site of naval exercises involving India, the United States, Japan, Singapore and Australia as they began their massive drill in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
Top Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Jyoti Basu accused the federal administration of encouraging Washington's supremacy over New Delhi.
"The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government is trying to turn the country into the American fold which is against the common minimum program on the basis of which the Left is extending support to the Center," he told the Left activists as they headed for the southern port city of Visakhapatnam.
"This is against the country's independent foreign policy," PTI quoted the 94-year-old CPI (M) leader as saying in Kolkata, the capital of Left-ruled West Bengal.
Twenty-five warships from India, the United States, Australia, Japan and Singapore are participating in the four-day exercise in the Bay of Bengal near Visakhapatnam.
India's Communist Party of India general secretary A B Bardhan, who was leading the activists to Visakhapatnam, said he had no idea about the success of the committee set up by the UPA government to address the Left's objections on the nuclear deal with the United States.
"The government will face the consequence if it goes ahead with operational sing the deal," he warned.
Source: Xinhua
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