Right from day one America was in the lead. John
Kerry, the US secretary of state set the US Corporate lobby dictated agenda
with 5 broader issues — with liability issue in civil nuclear deal to
limit US corporate liability to a certain cap on the top followed by
defense, trade, renewable energy and climate change.
The US
is the clear winner when Modi lead BJP government signed the nuclear deal
by removing the unlimited liability clause under pressure from Obama. It was
the BJP that brought/joined the No Confidence Motion against Dr.Manmohan
Singh's Government on the issue of liability clause and then the infamous cash
for vote scam happened in the Parliament. However, as usual BJP under Modi took
U - turn on that & decided to create a pool of insurance by the state owned
Insurance Companies to be used to pay the compensation and limit the product
liability to 5 years. The 50% of Insurance amount will be born by the
Government of India
& the remaining 50% by the 4 public sector units for both foreign and
domestic nuclear corporations. In other words all the liability will be born by
the Government of India aka Citizens of India.
Yes the Modi Government have got a breakthrough in avoiding US inspection
in the Indian reactors, but that was the issue of second stage & the
liability clause couldn't allow UPA Government to reach there. As the
suppliers’ liability is already very meager, PM Modi has further diluted the
suppliers’ liability clause, to give an escape route to nuclear corporations in
case of a nuclear disaster. The hesitation on the part of US Corporations to
take the liability in case of a disaster shows that they do not trust the
designs of their own reactors. The fact is Fukushima
reactors in Japan
were supplied by US Corporations and Modi government has put the life of its
own citizens under a big risk in case of a nuclear disaster.
I leave it to the people of India
to decided that who should be given credit for selling India . Because
in the first place when Germany
and Japan have promised
their citizens to phase out all the nuclear power plants; why India wants to put new nuclear power plants that
too with the help of USA
that has not put any new nuclear power plant since 1950?
As far as defense technology transfer and co-production in India is
concerned all the talks will be the matter for discussion for future
historians. It is an open secret that US on this count is very protective and
when it does not share technology with its close NATO allies why they will
share it with India? The only country that have unlimited access to defense
technology and hardware is Israel
that too because it practically owns by virtue of financing campaigns of
all the politicians across the aisles in Washington
and state houses and Senates of America.
By signing (if India
has signed) the Communications Interoperability and Security Memorandum of
Understanding (CISMOA) India
will be allowing access to USA
to its entire communication system. USA
has a long history of spying on their friends and allies except Israel . The
reason is Israel/MOSSAD is better equipped to spy on America ;
materially and has vast support of prominent Americans in high places as its
friends.
Indians feel proud with the presence of US junk/heath hazard
industry like McDonald, Starbucks, Coke, Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Burger King,
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Cargill, Monsanto etc in India for killing the local
food and beverage industry, creating low paid jobs and draining foreign
exchange with their massive outflow in royalties. Indians also consider it
progress with Ford, GM, Honda, Hundai, Toyota, Mercedes, Audi etc assembling
cars in India without critical components technology transfer and are
responsible for massive out flow of foreign exchange in royalties. PM Modi as
CM of Gujarat gave Ford USA Rs 18,000.00 crores to create 2,000 jobs with no
clause that they have to transfer critical component technology! No one in India wants to talk about China where
Honda and Audi are using 100% local contents. No one wants to criticize Suzuki
established in 1984 and still the use of local components have not crossed 50%
and still the critical component technology has not been transferred.
Three cheers for lame duck President Obama with lowest
domestic approval rating that was not in a position to deliver anything of
consequence to India for
achieving a big win in India
for US corporations. With struggling US
economy with 50 mil people on food stamps and high unemployment; US corporations
need new markets. What could be a better place to sell their junk industry and
have control on food supply and communication than India
with 350 million middle class that out numbered 310 million total US population.
It may improve Obama's domestic rating and if it goes above 50% it may pave the
way for a 3rd Democrat Term in the White House.
On the other hand PM Modi was more busy in projecting
himself as the Fashion Icon of the world by wearing a suite with his name
"Narendra Damodardas Modi" written in English all over it like the
suits of world famous dictator Hosni Mubarak of Egypt with his name written on
them. That made Modi a laughing stock in the international media and Washington
Post tweeted that "Prime Minister Modi wore a suit that takes
personalization to a "ridiculus extreme". According to Reuters Obama
also dig in by saying "Move aside, Michelle Obama. The World has a new
fashion icon....". May be PM Modi was promoting English against the
teachings of his mentors RSS that wants to promote Hindi in India and abroad.
Just few months back it was the same PM Modi who insisted on speaking in Hindi
at UN. Even that was not enough PM Modi made another statement to the world by
wearing a headgear that he is the PM of Gujarat/Gujaratis only not every Indian
on the Republic Day of India. PM Modi forgot that the headgear he is
wearing is not an article of faith like in Sikhism. Then he is not attending a
local function in Gujarat but Republic Day Parade of
India that represents 29 states of India and their residents from
all faiths and no faith.
Besides selling India
to USA , the only other
thing PM Modi can claim as his legacy from Obama visit in history books would
be that under his government for the first time a US
President was the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade and it was the first
time a US President visited India twice.
