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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    22 : Clearly Troubled: The Indian Government and a Nuclear Deal

    Mr Dhiraj Nayyar, Research Fellow-designate at the ISAS

    31 August 2007

    The ruling Indian coalition is tottering on the brink of an implosion, following a fall out between two of its major constituents - the ruling Indian National Congress and the supporting communist parties. And the disharmony, amusingly described as marital discord by the parties concerned, though seeming like daggers drawn to everyone else, is the direct consequence of the recently concluded Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.