Senior BJP leader L K Advani has suggested amending the constitution and making it mandatory for the government to seek parliamentary approval before signing any treaties and agreements that affects the country’s security, sovereignty and geographical integrity.

In an interview to RSS mouthpiece Panchajanya, the BJP patriarch said that at present it was not binding on the government to seek such approvals, be it the Indo-US nuclear pact or any other agreement with foreign powers. “I feel if this is not done, the Government might ‘compromise’ on sensitive issues like Jammu and Kashmir. It is necessary to make the government feel that every body has to be taken into confidence,’’ he asserted.

On the logjam between the Left parties and the UPA Government, Advani said the BJP did not believe in ‘blind hatred’ for the US like the communists. He also said, “What the prime minister had done was bind the nation’s hands by accepting the Indo-US nuclear accord which says future tests will be conducted with the consent of the United States.

Consequences
The government is not telling the countrymen the consequences of conducting nuclear tests if it conducts the tests. The prime minister laims that India will be free to conduct future tests but the treaty finalised says that in such an event, the US can take back the nuclear fuel and equipment.