If the Congress propaganda in 2004 is given any credence, then the party has deviated significantly from its original commitment. At the release of the National Common Minimum Programme in May 2004 by UPA partners and the Left. THE Indian Left cannot be accused of deviance for its decision to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the issue of the India-United States nuclear deal. It has for long espoused the position that given the aggressive expansionism of the U.S. under George W. Bush, the silence or collaboration of other major capitalist powers in response to this aggression, and the end of multipolarity after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contradiction between U.S-led imperialism and the situation of people of developing countries such as India had emerged as the principal contradiction of our times. The Left supporting any truck with the U.S. would have meant both a violation of its programme and a betrayal of its cadre and the people. Unresolvable disagreement over the attempt to forge a strategic relationship with the U.S. through the instrumentality of a specially crafted nuclear deal was inevitable. It was the recognition of this reality, besides the Congress