The CPI(M) on Friday said the WikiLeaks latest release in which the US embassy in New Delhi described Mr Prakash Karat as an “extortionist” confirmed its apprehension that Washington was pressuring New Delhi to weaken its independent foreign policy.
“It confirms our apprehension that the US was pressurising India to weaken and destroy its independent foreign policy,” the CPI(M) central committee member, Mr Nilotpal Basu, said.
“It is very clear from the WikiLeaks that the US embassy was interfering in our internal politics to influence decision-making in India,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters.
Mr Karat said it was no secret that Americans have been interfering in India’s political system.
The US embassy described Mr Karat as an “extortionist” in a cable that discussed the political scenario in November 2007.
The cable says: “The Congress has proven especially cautious and nervous in the face of recent extortionist tactics by Prakash Karat.”