After appearing to go soft on its opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal last week, Samajwadi Party on Monday has said it would 'firmly oppose' the agreement in the discussion on the issue in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
"We will firmly oppose the deal on Tuesday," party general secretary Amar Singh told PTI in New Delhi.
Singh said the United National Progressive Alliance's stand on the deal was 'very consistent and there is no dilution or ambiguity.'
The SP leader said he endorsed the stand taken by his party's parliamentary group leader Ram Gopal Yadav that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was an honourable person, but the deal he is pursuing with the United States was not an honourable one.
Asked specifically if SP would be seen as siding with Left parties' stand on the issue, Singh, who is also UNPA's spokesman, said: "They (Left parties) should be seeing my position, because I am also opposed to the Left allowing the government to go to the IAEA for talks."
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