In an editorial in its mouthpiece "People's Democracy", the party told the Government not to bank on its support if it planned to go ahead with the deal.
"It is high time that the UPA government scrupulously adhere to the Common Minimum Programme and work for its implementation in right earnest, instead of passionately pursuing issues like the Indo-US nuclear deal which do not figure in the CMP," the editorial said.
Reminding the Government that the Left parties extended outside support to it on the basis of the CMP, it said, "this support, therefore, cannot be taken for granted, if the CMP is violated."
The party pointed out that the BJP is emboldened to nurture hopes of returning to power mainly due to the fact that the UPA government had "largely squandered" opportunities to strengthen the secular democratic dispensation at the centre and to work for significant improvement in the people's livelihood.
Noting that many a promise in the CMP "remained on paper", it said even those which were implemented, under pressure from the Left, "suffer from bureaucratic hurdles and corruption".
The CPI(M) lamented that it was ironic that the government, formed with the Left's outside support to have a secular regime at the centre, was providing "grist to the mill of the communal forces due to its faulty policies".
