Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:31 PM IST
By Mark Williams
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A bill that will allow the United States to sell nuclear technology to India compromises India's independence, its main opposition party said on Sunday, adding that the "humiliating" law should be rejected.
Legislation sailed through Congress early on Saturday, ending the isolation imposed after New Delhi developed nuclear weapons in contravention of international standards.
The deal, first agreed in July 2005, has caught the imagination of many in India and is seen as a major move towards becoming a regional power. But it has also attracted criticism after it was modified in the U.S. legislature.
In a sign of the battle the government faces, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which ruled the country between 1998 and 2004, said early fears the United States was only interested in capping India's nuclear weapons programme "stood confirmed".
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