New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's desperate attempt to get the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership was unwarranted and India should not have knocked NSG's door like an applicant, said former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday
"I would like to say strongly that India must not accept NSG membership, there is no need to go there as an applicant," Sinha, who is also a member of BJP's Margdarshak Mandal, said.
"If we get the NSG membership, we will be the loser. It will be a loss for us, no benefit. Whatever we had to get, we have got it. We have already received a one-time waiver from the NSG," he added.
"Indian government is being regularly misguided by some people sitting in power," he said on the context of Centre's over enthusiasm for NGG.
Meanwhile, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) hinted that India is ready to double its efforts on getting the NSG membership. MEA Spokesperson Vikas Swaroop said China was the only country which opposed our membership in Seoul and India will continue to engage with China.
"There was only one country which persistently raised procedural hurdles as a result of which decision was not taken at Seoul many of our friends supported us Russia, Japan, Australia, Canada, France but not a single country apart from that one country opposed the membership," he said.
"There are some processes which take longer, and I would like to evaluate the NSG membership process in that category," he added.
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