The Congress on Monday alleged that the Modi authorities’s announcement that it’s going to amend the Civil Legal responsibility for Nuclear Harm Act 2010 was a “U-turn” geared toward appeasing French and American firms since Prime Minister Narendra Modi is travelling to those two nations over the subsequent 4 days.
Congress common secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh recalled that on February 8, 2015, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs issued a booklet referred to as ‘Steadily Requested Questions and Solutions on Civil Legal responsibility for Nuclear Harm Act 2010 and associated points’.
“Q3 mentioned the next: ‘Has India agreed to amend its Civil Legal responsibility for Nuclear Harm Act of 2010 (CNLD Act 2010) and the CNLD Guidelines of 2011? If not now, would they be amended sooner or later?’ The Reply given to this Query by the Modi Govt then was the next: ‘There is no such thing as a proposal to amend the Act or the Guidelines.’,” Ramesh mentioned on X. On February 1, 2025, the Finance Minister in her Finances speech introduced that this Act can be amended, he mentioned.
“The U-turn has been accomplished clearly to appease French and American firms because the PM is travelling to those two nations over the subsequent 4 days,” Ramesh alleged and identified that negotiations with these firms have been occurring for over 15 years.
“The Civil Legal responsibility for Nuclear Harm Act, 2010, was handed after appreciable dialogue each out and in of Parliament. As Chief of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha, the late Arun Jaitley, had performed an necessary position in crafting this regulation,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Modi can be in France from February 10-12 to co-chair the AI Motion Summit with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Prime Minister Modi will even pay a two-day working go to to the US from February 12 throughout which he’ll maintain a bilateral assembly with President Donald Trump and work together with enterprise leaders and members of the Indian neighborhood.
