Hindutva High Flyer Uranium Swami and the US Sangh Dealer lobby for the Nuclear Deal

[Om Uranium Uranium Om Swa Ha!. 'National Interest' and Some 'responsible' (respectable) men of the Sangh Lend their weight. They do it wonderfully, for social legitimation. BJP opposes, other branches support. They are at all levels and all sides, inside and outside. With Uncle Sam and for swadeshi'national soveregnty'. They negotiated the deal, but opposed it in national interest while in opposition. Great artists in manipulation. See two reports below]

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Indian Express
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/bBack-nuke-deal-Sri-Sri-Ravi-Shankar-to-Opposition-b/333942/

Back nuke deal: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Opposition

Agencies
Posted online: Thursday , July 10, 2008 at 05:35:57

Washington, July 10: Invoking national interest, renowned spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal.

"All parties must support the deal that is beneficial to the country," he said.

India has always had a tradition of the government and opposition coming together in national interest whenever a crisis of war befall on the nation, he said, appealing to all the political parties to display magnanimity on the issue.

"At a time when the country is faced with severe energy shortage, the government has negotiated a nuclear deal with the US, which can augment sustainable energy sources," he said in a statement issued in Seattle.

"The opposition need not oppose everything that the government does," Sri Sri added.


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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080711/jsp/nation/story_9533437.jsp
The Telegraph
July 11 , 2008

Sangh’s friends of deal

by SANJAY K. JHA


New Delhi, July 10: The BJP’s dilemma over pulling down the government on the Indo-US nuclear agreement has prompted a section of party leaders to look for “hidden persuaders” who are working overtime to protect the deal.

Apart from the names of some important BJP leaders, ideologues and former ministers, the list of pro-deal “suspects” includes even senior RSS leaders.

Sources said Ved Nanda, a professor with the University of Denver in the US and a Sangh parivar member, has succeeded in convincing many senior RSS leaders on the necessity of the deal. They said the recent foreign tours of some RSS and BJP leaders are being viewed in this light.

Nanda entered the RSS through the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and gained prominence by launching the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) in the US in 1989. But the most striking feature, RSS sources claimed, is that he is close to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.

Apart from being an influential Hindu protagonist, Nanda is also known in RSS circles as Rice’s teacher. Rice went to study at the University of Denver and Nanda teaches at the John Evans School of Law at the university, where her father was also employed.

Nanda has been coming to India to attend conferences organised by the RSS. “Nanda has a close association with top RSS leaders like Mohan Bhagwat, Madandas Devi, S. Gurumurthy and Ram Madhav,” a source said, claiming that the professor had been pushing for the nuclear deal from the very beginning.

The pro-deal section of the parivar believes that the BJP has “become a prisoner of dogmatism” and now “many leaders are feeling suffocated because of the party’s strident opposition to the nuclear deal”.

Another source said: “When L.K. Advani attempted a course correction, he had the blessings of some RSS leaders and a large section of younger BJP leaders and a few apolitical Right-wing ideologues. But RSS chief Sudarshan and a section of the BJP stood firm. The pro-deal leaders also yielded because the government had not done enough to take the Opposition on board. Otherwise, the BJP would have taken a different position.”

Many BJP leaders conceded in private that “the American lobby” was still active and the leadership resisted immense pressure to alter its stand.

Now that the deal is almost done, the pro-US camp in the Sangh parivar is not very upset.