NEW DELHI: Sections of the civil society blamed what they called the Narendra Modi government’s inclination towards developed countries for India’s failure to get a favourable deal at WTO's Nairobi ministerial. India’s position didn’t go down well with the developing countries at the talks, they claimed.While Dinesh Abrol, convener of the national working group on patent rights, said there was a lack of solidarity among developing countries at Nairobi, Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor Biswajit Dhar said India was at the forefront of developing countries but this "abject surrender" showed that Washington has become the new power centre and not Geneva for WTO issues.India faced a major setback due to a lack of consensus among WTO countries on reaffirming the Doha Development Agenda, which was its most important demand from this ministerial. Besides, developed countries were also successful in clinching the deal away from India by allowing new issues to be taken up in the WTO's mandate.These civil society representatives said the Doha round was effectively dead and the WTO would undergo a complete change in character hereon."India had the option of standing firm like in the Singapore ministerial... After the failure of two ministerial conferences, the government should unite with the developing countries and not integrate with the north," Abrol said.They said other developing countries did not like India's bilateral dealing with the US last year on getting a peace clause in perpetuity till a permanent solution for public stockholding for food security is found."So, Nairobi is the culmination of what began in Bali," one representative said.