BJP faked opposition to Indo-US N-deal: WikiLeaks

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which continued to disrupt parliamentary proceedings for months over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal was really not against the deal and its criticism of the US in public was to score "easy political points" against UPA, according to latest Wikileaks expose.

The US, which was so keen on forging a civil nuclear deal with India, also tried to woo opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even as it tried is best to get the Congress-led UPA government to come to fall in line, WikiLeaks revealed.

WikiLeaks quoted US diplomatic cables to show that the American embassy in India tried to woo BJP, a key constituent of the pro-US National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, to antagonise the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress and the UPA.

WikiLeaks revealed that the American embassy in India also worked to break the Left-Congress alliance.

The expose, published by The Hindu, puts the BJP and the Congress on the same policy stance vis-a-vis the United States.

The BJP, however, denied any doublespeak and maintained that its position on the civil nuclear liability bill is strong and the fact that government had to come with 16 amendments to the original bill proves this.