In India they have, anyway. Legislators in the nation's socialist Samajwadi Party have broken away from their communist brethren and given Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the support he needs to implement the U.S.-Indian nuclear trade agreement without risking a forced early election, which the communists in government had been threatening to trigger if the nuclear deal was agreed to.
PM Singh said he would complete a nuclear inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency as soon as possible.
"The nuclear deal is in the interest of the nation," said Samajwadi Party senior leader Amar Singh. "We should have come out in support of the deal a year ago."
A further positive aspect of this deal? "The communist opposition has become far less important now that the Samajwadi Party has backed the deal," says the NTI's Global Security Newswire.