Indian PM would have been shot in China for lying: George Fernandes

In a bizarre statement former Indian Defense minister George Fernandes has said that if Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was China’s head of government he would have been shot for “bluffing” to the nation over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.

The agreement opens the way for civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries, but critics say it will eventually hurt India’s nuclear security because of US laws on nuclear trade governing the pact.

Accusing the PM of “betraying” the country by going ahead with the nuclear deal, George Fernandes said: “If it were China, they would have settled it with one bullet in his head.”

“The prime minister of the country has betrayed the nation by continuous bluffing, something unbecoming of the head of the government... The Americans chose to make a monkey of our PM by using the 60th birthday of India to spill the beans... what PM has succeeded in doing is to strip our armed forces from the strength that was created by the Vajpayee govt.”

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