A comeback for Somnath?

Ghar wapsi and reverse ghar wapsi have become so commonplace in Indian politics that these have stopped resulting in raised eyebrows. Still, rumour mills were set on fire over the weekend when Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), dropped by at expelled leader Somnath Chatterjee's Bolpur home, for lunch, seven years after the veteran earned former general secretary Prakash Karat's wrath and was expelled from the party. Yechury had taken over from Karat three months ago. After lunch, he described Chatterjee as an "asset to the party", though he did not say if Chatterjee would be re-inducted.