No threat to government: Chavan

NEW DELHI, Jun 26 (Agencies): Government today sought to play down suggestions on any threat to it over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

"There was no threat to the government," Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet briefing here.

"We have to take some foreign policy and political decisions," he said.

Chavan parried questions on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit to Japan to attend the G-8 summit next week.

"I cannot comment on that.

This is not discussed in the Cabinet," the minister said.