When the embassy’s science and technology advisor Dr Nina Fedoroff met with Planning Commission deputy chairman Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia just before Ramesh made the announcement on February 9, Ahluwalia ’noted that many of the non-government organisations in India protesting Bt brinjal were in fact closely associated with and funded by European NGOs’. He also felt that the public consultation process on Bt brinjal initiated by Ramesh was ’one sided’.

see cable at:

http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10NEWDELHI275.html