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Left party leaders, who are against the Indo-US nuclear deal, are getting “death threats” through mails. Four top Communist leaders, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), A B Bardhan and D Raja (CPI), received identical copies of the letter in flawed English by mail for blocking the Indo-US nuke deal and allegedly “harassing” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government.

“Death threat” mail was sent by some Vinay Kateri from Mumbai who warned them against “behaving like terrorists” and accused the Left leaders of “hijacking” national interests.

The letter read: “May god bless this country to eliminate these r—— by any means. People are fed up with you. Enough is enough.”

“People of this country are tired with the r——- behavior and for harassing the government for the last four-and-a-half years.”

“Do not hold this country for ransom. Do not behave like terrorists,” the letter said. It said the Communists were ’suffering from blood cancer, namely anti-American virus’.

The writer also accused them of suffering from “anti-American virus” and said “people of this country are tired with their … behavior and harassing the government for the last four-and-a-half years.”

A CPI-M source said Karat got the hand-written letter along with a computer printout.

Raja said on the receipt of letter, “These kinds of things keep happening in politics. We do not take it seriously.”

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The very crucial Indo-US deal conflicts are still unresolved. While opposing the deal, on Friday, top Left leaders threatened the government not to sign the safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, otherwise they will pull out their hands for the government.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee discussed the issue with the Left party leaders after which Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat said, “We have asked the government not to precede further on the IAEA safeguards agreement.”

“I explained to him (Mukherjee) the Left parties’ stand adopted at our meeting,” the CPI-M leader added.

Earlier, a senior CPI-M leader made a clear statement that “if the government takes the next step, we will break with them.”

Karat expressed the hope that the government will last its full term and that “we are trying to make serious efforts (in this regard).”

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, whose party is a key constituent of the UPA, met Karat on Friday morning in an attempt to defuse the situation.

He later said the government should listen to what the Left parties are saying and address their “concerns” while deciding on the nuclear deal.

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