On the eve of crucial UPA-Left Committee meeting, US Ambassador David Mulford on Tuesday met senior functionaries of the Prime Minister's Office, including Minister of State Prithviraj Chavan, apparently to remind the government that time was running out fast on the nuclear deal.
During his meetings with Chavan and Shyam Saran, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Nuclear issue, Mulford is understood to have gauged the UPA government's intentions on the nuclear deal that is stuck because of stiff opposition by Left parties.
The meetings are believed to have deliberated on the current status of the nuclear deal, a day after US State Department said that every passing day was making it harder to get the agreement through.
The US envoy apparently wanted to know about the government's plans to operationalise the deal in the face of stiff opposition by Left allies.
Chavan and Saran are believed to have conveyed to Mulford that the government is keen to implement the deal as soon as possible and all efforts