Tigers can change their stripes, but comrades don’t shed their hatred of America. Communist leader Sitaram Yechury, whose party once threatened to topple the Manmohan Singh government over the nuclear deal with the US, was not amused by all the attention former American president George Bush was getting in India.
Bush was the keynote speaker at the same Hindustan Times conclave where Yechury spoke a few hours later. When someone in the audience asked him about Bush’s praise of the nuclear deal as India’s passport to the world, Yechury could hardly disguise his venom.
With a smile on his face, Yechury said he had asked the organisers to keep Bush at “a safe distance” from him.
