The Congress on Saturday hailed the NSG decision to provide a waiver to India stating that it is a unique development that confers de facto nuclear power status to the country.
Terming it as the “greatest event in the 20th-21st century,” party chief spokesperson M. Veerappa Moily said countries that were hostile to India after New Delhi conducted nuclear tests and the P-5 (permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council) had agreed to the waiver. “We have become P-6. It is a historical event,” he said.
We have really reached a landmark. This de-facto nuclear power status of India is nothing less than the Government-in-Exile status of the Tibetan Government.