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Rahul Gandhi’s, in his speech, said let’s conquer fear and look outwards. Is this the end of hypocrisy with our relationship with the US?

Prem Shankar Jha said that there certainly has been some hypocrisy in the past. “If the deal hadn’t gone through,” he said, “we would have been trying for it. There are two giant benefits of the deal. One is that nuclear power door is now open to us, which is essential because under global warming very soon people won’t even be selling you coal. The other is that hundreds of industries have been held back. The most obvious areas in which you have been held back - where thousands of projects have been started and stalled because one key component was not available - was in defence projects.”

Swapan Das Gupta agreed with the fact that there was a change in new India as far as relationship with the US was concerned.

“That anti-Americanism is not on,” he said. “The Left talks a language which is anti-diluvium in many ways. Having said that, I don’t think there is any way in which the culture of the parliamentary debate, the victory, etc establishes the contours of the new India,” he added.

Congress Spokesperson Manish Tiwari, however, defended that India can move towards becoming new India only if it’s allowed to. “You have the dinosaurs of the BJP and the likes of the Left who are trying to hold India back,” he said.

He added, ”Essentially what this nuclear deal is also about is the new world order of multipolarity which is emerging. After almost 15 years of unipolarity, the world has started moving towards the semblance of multipolarity and the fact that India is being accepted as one of the poles in that emerging axis is the movement of new India. And if it wouldn’t be for our friends in the BJP, who haven’t been able to make even one convincing argument over the last two days as to why did they oppose the Indo-us nuclear deal and forget the Left whose thinking stopped developing the day the cold war ended, we wouldn’t have been in the situation that we are in.“

Neerja, however, sounded sceptical of the argument that India was moving towards becoming new India.