New Delhi: Accusing Environment Minister
Jairam Ramesh of misrepresenting facts before Parliament, BJP
today said with the Prime Minister's "admission" that
Copenhagen summit was not satisfactory, India should take a
lead in bringing Kyoto Protocol "back on track".
"The Prime Minister has wittingly or unwittingly admitted
that the Copenhagen summit was not satisfactory. Does this
mean that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had
misrepresented facts before Parliament that India's interests
were safe?
"The Prime Minister should direct him to present the
correct picture before the nation," BJP spokesperson Ravi
Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
He said after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "own
admission" that the climate change talks were not
satisfactory, India should take a lead in "bringing the Kyoto
Protocol back on tracks with the help of other developing
nations."
Inaugurating the 97th Indian Science Congress at
Thiruvananthapuram yesterday, Singh acknowledged that results
of last month's climate summit had left no one satisfied and
the progress made was, "limited."
-PTI
First Published: Monday, January 04, 2010, 22:20