Former Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale’s book ‘The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India”, has kicked up a row recently. In the book, Gokhale claims that China tried to use the Left parties in India to scuttle the India-US civil nuclear deal. Dismissing the author’s claims as false, Brinda Karat, Politburo member and senior leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke to Outlook on why the Left parties’ stands vindicated on its opposition to the nuclear deal.