The BJP using the Wikileaks cables to corner Congress on the cash for votes issue is proving a boomerang. A new set of Wikileaks cables claim that BJP's opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal in 2008 was mainly political posturing. It did not oppose the deal or was serious about a renegotiation if voted to power.

BJP leaders, in private conversations to US diplomats, admitted the opposition was only for consumption of the domestic audience, and aimed at scoring political points over the UPA.

The cable stated, “In a private conversation on December 28, BJP National Executive Member Seshadiri Chari urged us ‘not to read too much into the foreign policy resolution, especially the parts relating to the US.' Chari dismissed the statement as ‘ standard practice' aimed at scoring easy political points against the UPA. BJP spokesman Prakash Javdekar echoed these statements, saying that the BJP was not really upset about the US/India relationship, but merely wanted the GOI [Government of India] and USG [United States Government] to be more forthcoming about any deal on nuclear policy.”

But the most damaging is another cable on the same date about Advani downplaying BJP's opposition to the US-India civil nuclear agreement, and assuring US that there would be no imminent move to reopen the deal if the BJP returned to power.

It stated, “He acknowledged [that] the BJP public position in July 2008 was that the deal constrained the country's ‘strategic autonomy' and the party would ‘re-examine' it if it returned to power but connected that stance to domestic political developments then at play in India.”