Basavapunniah who was one of the most pro-China leaders in CPI(M) and even known to have some sympathy for the Naxalites, is seen particularly happy when he meets a Chinese leader whose identity is not clear. He is seen embracing him and recalling that they were meeting 23 years after they met at Bucharest. "I used to anxiously follow what happened to you during the Cultural Revolution!". According to journalist and author N P Ullekh, this tall big Chinese leader was Peng Zeng who was also among those key leaders rehabilitated by Deng after the end of Cultural Revolution. Peng, once a prominent Mao loyalist was in the all important five member committee appointed to implement Cultural Revolution. But he later fell out of Mao's favour and got marginalised like all who differed with Mao. Many had thought that Peng was among the nearly 40,000 party members and leaders of the CPC who had "disappeared" or killed for being "Capitalist roaders" during Cultural Revolution. Obviously, Basavappunnaiah had reason to be anxious. Their previous meeting that he was referring to was the International Conference of World Communist Parties held at Bucharest, Romania in 1960 where the deep ideological differences between the two Communist parties of Soviet Union and China came to fore. Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and Mao had fought bitterly against each other at the conference. Peng was one of the Mao loyalists who too had lambasted Khrushchev at that conference. Basavapunniah, a bitter critic of Soviet party after it disowned Stalin, must have become an admirer of Peng at Bucharest !