Chennai:  Charging Congress-led UPA at the Centre with "manufacturing a political crisis" by way of the Indo-US nuclear-deal, CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat, MP, today said the Centre was failing to look into the priorities of people's issues.

"The Government of India is more committed to US President George Bush and his administration on the nuclear deal. But the real crisis in India is the growing inflation, which calls for immediate action from the Government," she said while speaking at a conference here.

"What should be the Government's priority? It is common sense to control inflation and the spiralling price rise and strengthen the Public Distribution System," she said adding that the government was more concerned about the deal, which she described as an "obsession."

"Give up your obsession and you will get other sources," for power generation, she said referring to the much-delayed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline.

"We are sacrificing and deliberately delaying the IPI due to pressure from the US. The project has been delayed for the last two years only because of the US," she later told reporters.

Reiterating that her party would not support Congress at the Centre if it went ahead with the nuclear deal, she said, "we will never support a Government that wants to do itself a 40 year imperial embrace."

The Indo-US nuclear deal has a validity period of 40 years.

Source : PTI