Singh underestimates anti-US feeling

Manmohan Singh is paying a steep political price for his pursuit of a strategic partnership with the US.

Domestic resistance to the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, sealed last month in Washington after two years of gruelling negotiations, has suddenly hardened, exposing the extent to which India’s technocratic prime minister has underestimated the visceral anti-Americanism of the government’s communist allies and the opportunism of the Hindu nationalist opposition.