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MR. SPEAKER: I will also call you.

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MR. SPEAKER: Shri L.K. Advani.  But I would request you to be brief so that I can call other Members also to speak and we shall be discussing fully this matter later on.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI (GANDHINAGAR): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am grateful to you for permitting me to make a few observations in respect of a matter which has in a way dominated this entire week of Parliament.  Sir, this house commenced last Friday.  That day, we adjourned because of the passing away of our senior colleague.  Since Monday afternoon, particularly after the Prime Minister made a Statement here on the Nuclear Agreement with America, even though there has been no discussion or debate, but the entire House has been agitated over that one single Statement alone. … (Interruptions)

PROF. M. RAMADASS (PONDICHERRY):  It is not the entire house.  … (Interruptions)

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Yes, I agree.  I am sorry. He is right. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER:    He is correcting himself.

 SHRI L.K. ADVANI :   I am correcting myself – not the entire House but a majority of the House. … (Interruptions)

अध्यक्ष महोदय: आप छोड़िए। आप जानते हैं।  Come to the issue.

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SHRI L.K. ADVANI :  Not only the majority of the House even the ruling alliance has not been unanimous on it.  The entire non-UPA Opposition has been unanimous on this and even the UPA is not unanimous on this.  It is a fact.  This has happened for the first time in these three and a half years.  Mind you, for the first time.  It is not surprising, therefore, that while just before this Session commenced, from the Government side, the Agreement was being touted as the centerpiece of the UPA Government’s foreign policy achievement and in between comes the 60th  Anniversary of Independence. … (Interruptions)  It is remarkable.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : If you want me not to speak, I will sit down. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: Since the matter will be coming up for discussion on Monday, we can do that later.

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अध्यक्ष महोदय : आप छोड़िये।You do not have to come in support of Mr. Advani.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I remember that the last debate that took place in this House and the other House was essentially on the Hyde Act. It was then said like this.

MR. SPEAKER: Please do not go into the merits.

अध्यक्ष महोदय : ठीक है, आप लोग बैठिये। It would have been over by now.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI  : Yes, it would have been over. But they are not allowing me to complete. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: I am trying to control them. You know that.

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SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I will just read out one thing. … (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: He will conclude it.

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SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Immediately after the agreement had concluded, there was – on the record – a briefing, on the status of the US-Indo Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative and the text of the bilateral agreement by Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs of the Government of US.  The question was posed to him very specifically referring to the issue that has arisen now.  The question was; “in the Hyde Act… (Interruptions)  Please, I am not yielding.