Makebelieve attack

The Congress and the Left may have worked out a temporary truce on the nuclear deal, but it has left the CPIM cadre all confused. Preparing for jathas and rallies to protest the joint naval exercises India is carrying out with the US, Japan and Singapore in the Bay of Bengal, the apparatchiks received a set of instructions after the interim peace was thrashed out with the Congress: 8220;Blame American imperialism, keep the attack on the Central Government minimal8221;. The bemused party workers, fed on anti-Americanism, wondered why the n-deal and the naval exercises couldn8217;t be linked. 8220;It8217;ll be done systematically,8221; pontificated the leaders. With no clarity in mind, the cadres are roused and ready but few know for what.