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Nuclear deal : NDA should rise above parochial concerns

	April 14, 2008

(K. Subrahmanyam) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is justifiably very proud of conducting the Shakti tests and declaring India a nuclear weapon power. It was so possessive of this claim for quite some time after the tests that the NDA leadership was reluctant to give the credit for having developed the nuclear weapons to the Congress Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and P.V. Narasimha Rao. In an obituary tribute to Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee revealed that Narasimha R ...