Ahead of the meeting of the joint panel to consider their concerns on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Left parties on Sunday said the government should consider the committee's finding before taking any step to operationalise the agreement.

"We are asking the government not to rush through with the next steps, which are necessary to operationalise the deal. The findings of this committee have to be taken into account," Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Sitaram Yechury told PTI in Vishakapatnam. The first meeting of the panel is scheduled to start on Tuesday.

To a question about stability of the government, he said, "Our agenda is the nuclear deal and the implications of the Hyde act on national sovereignty and interest."

In Vishakapatnam, Yechury indicated that CPI-M will not destabilize the government at this juncture saying there was no link between the nuclear agreement and the survival of the Congress-led coalition.

"We are fighting against the deal keeping in the mind the future interests of the country, its independent foreign policy, sovereignty and its place in the Asian politics," Yechuri said at a Meet the Press programme organized by Vizag Journalists Forum.

"We will go with an open mind to the UPA-Left committee meeting," said CPI general secretary AB Bardhan in Delhi.

Asked about the future course of action in case no amicable solution is found by the committee, Bardhan said, "We will see it then. I don't want to speculate."

On the upcoming visit of the Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil K Kakodkar to Vienna for the IAEA meet, Bardhan said he understood that the India-specific safeguard proposals will not be put forward at the meeting and India will participate only as a member country.

Yechury said in Vishakapatnam it was the responsibility of the government to address the concerns of the Left parties before taking a stand on the next steps towards operationalising the nuclear agreement.     

"The Left's opposition to the deal will not change under any circumstances," Yechuri said.

Disagreeing with the perception that a flexible stance by left parties had emboldened the UPA to firm up the deal with America, the CPI-M leader said they had been steadfastly opposed to certain decisions of the UPA government that went against the spirit of the Common Minimum Programme.

Asked whether the Left will look for new political equation in the event of mid-term polls, Yechuri said: "We will work for a viable third alternative to ensure long survival of a healthy secular government rather than a cut and paste coalition."

"We will do away with the cut and paste coalition governments," he said.

Charging the BJP with 'double standards,' Yechury said on one hand the saffron party accepts the speaker's ruling that the nuclear issue was beyond the competence of Parliament, on the other they demand the setting up of joint parliamentary committee.

He also said it was during the NDA regime that the move to have strategic alliance with the US was started. Voicing concern over the stalling of business in the Parliament by BJP members, Yechuri said on one hand the saffron party was demanding constitution of JPC on nuclear deal issue while on the other hand, it was obstructing the members from discussing it in the House.

"If a discussion is held in the Parliament, the majority opinion of the members on the issue will be known," he said.