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The party wanted the Government to bring in a resolution condemning the war for unanimous adoption by Parliament on April 7, when the Budget session recommences. "India cannot give the U.S. the right to spread chaos. Iraqi people alone have the right to decide who should be their leader,'' the Samata spokesperson and general secretary, Shambu Shrivastava, said at a press conference. The party would hold demonstrations on April 5 and make an appeal for boycott of all U.S. products. "The Government should immediately announce that the country would organise humanitarian relief other than the U.N.-sanctioned food-for-oil programme," he said. Terming the war "unjust and inhuman'', he said the U.S.-led forces were ``deliberately targeting" innocent civilians, since the ``uprising'' by the Iraqi people, which the U.S. planners were anticipating, did not occur. While maintaining that the party's representatives in the Government — the Defence Minister, George Fernandes and the Minister of State for External Affairs, Digvijay Singh — had tried to convey their unhappiness over the Iraq issue, Dr. Shrivastava said his party would ask the Ministers to take up the matter with the Government.As the party was in Government it would not look nice to raise it outside. "But if the party's viewpoint is not being registered, then it was time to state it openly." He alleged that the foreign policy establishment was infested with people who thought that the interests of India and the U.S. were the same. The policy need not be Pakistan-centric or obssessed by the U.S. Washington's support to Islamabad would continue and its interest was to capture oil reserves and secure contracts, he added. PTI reports The CPI today charged the Vajpayee Government with being ``soft'' in condemning the U.S.-led war and accused it of playing the communal card with an eye on the vote bank. ``India has not declared the U.S. an aggressor when the entire world has condemned the attack on Iraq ignoring the U.N. The Vajpayee Government has sacrificed the pride of the nation,'' the CPI general secretary, A.B. Bardhan, told the All-India Youth Federation rally in Patna.
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