New Delhi, Aug 25 (SPA) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek to allay scientists' fears over the Indo-US nuclear deal when he meets later today a group of nuclear scientists and members of the Atomic Energy Commission in New Delhi . The meeting with the scientists is taking place at a time when the agreement with the United States on civil nuclear cooperation has come under attack from political parties and the scientific community. With the Left parties, Samajwadi Party, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and a group of nuclear scientists expressing reservations about the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Prime Minister told Parliament that the bilateral pact will not put a cap on the country's military nuclear programme. Singh had assured the House that his government would work for "broad national consensus" on the issue. As a part of the process, the Prime Minister is meeting a group of eight nuclear scientists who had raised doubts about the perpetuity of nuclear restraint and safeguards at nuclear facilities among other issues, according to India's national news agency "Press Trust of India (PTI)."--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/385043