While the Opposition has been criticising the UPA for being a sell-out to the US, the latest 'India cables' released by Wikileaks and published by The Hindu refute the charge. According to the leaks, Americans saw their relationship with India going nowhere.
The cables relate to American officials complaining that the UPA government has been "frustratingly cautious'" in its approach to India-US relations.
The diplomatic cables have references to "irritants'" that needed to be "fixed". They also say that the US found getting 'full cooperation' from India difficult.
The Indian bureaucracy is accused by one senior American diplomat of behaving as though it was "still fighting the Cold War".
Several communications referred to a "trust deficit" in India-US relations because of the "perception" in India that America has not been doing enough to prevent Pakistan-inspired terror attacks on India.
A cable dated January 14, 2008 from David Mulford, then US Ambassador to New Delhi, said, "We note that under the NDA government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee it was easier to meet Indian officials and get business done, even in the paranoid Ministry of Home Affairs, but the Congress government has reverted to type, indulging in the sorts of Brezhnev-era controls on its people, of which Indira Gandhi would have approved of. The Nehru dynasty needs to become more like the Tata dynasty."
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