Mandi: Terming it wrong on the part of the UPA to go ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal, BJP President Rajnath Singh today said the decision to sign the pact had been taken without consulting the party.

"The UPA government's progress towards signing of the deal is wrong...it is not good for the future of the country," Singh said addressing the party's Yuva Garjana Rally to kickstart the party's campaign for the second phase of assembly elections in the state today.

Asserting that the deal would jeopardise the country's right to develop nuclear energy on its own in the future, he said, the decision to go ahead with the pact had been taken without taking the BJP into confidence.

Praising the previous NDA regime Singh said the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had the unbending will and guts to go for nuclear testing at Pokharan and face the US sanctions which followed.

Charging the UPA government at the centre with failure on all fronts, the BJP President attributed rising prices, growth in terrorism and suicide by farmers to its faulty economic policy.

Assailing Manmohan Singh government for questioning the existence of Lord Ram he said it had hurt the sentiments of the people of the country.

"Even Mughals in medieval India had not questioned the existence of Lord Ram", he said adding that the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi had also uttered Ram before his death.

Hitting out at Virbhadra Singh government in the hill state for corruption he said theft of a hefty amount of Rs. 1.5 crore from the Chief Minister's office speaks of the degree of corruption prevailing in the state.

Source : PTI