New Delhi [India], February 28 (ANI): Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday launched a pointy assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and stated that ‘self-declared Vishwaguru’ has been ‘uncovered’ following US President Trump’s latest stance on the Pakistan-Afghanistan battle.
Ramesh described Trump’s ‘full-throated and categorical help’ for Pakistan in the course of the US’s escalating battle with Afghanistan as a big setback for what he termed Indian ‘huglomacy’.
In an X put up, Ramesh wrote, ‘President Trump’s full-throated and categorical help for Pakistan in its warfare with Afghanistan is one other setback for Indian ‘huglomacy.’ He has as soon as once more gone out of his method to reward the person whose inflammatory remarks offered the backdrop to the terrorist assaults in Pahalgam on April twenty second, 2025, that have been orchestrated by Pakistan.’
Referring to the India-US interim commerce settlement, he claimed that financial diplomacy between the 2 nations has ‘failed badly’, alleging that the PM agreed to a ‘clearly one-sided commerce deal’ the place India pledged to import from American farmers whereas receiving solely obscure concessions.
‘Our financial diplomacy with the US has failed badly, as evinced by Mr. Modi out of the blue surrendering to a clearly one-sided commerce deal by which India has made agency pledges particularly to import from American farmers, whereas the US has made obscure commitments to permit for larger exports from India. Not solely that, days after the settlement, the US imposed a 125.87% import responsibility on photo voltaic modules from India,’ the put up learn.
The Interim Settlement consists of India eliminating or lowering tariffs on numerous US industrial items, meals, and agricultural merchandise, whereas the US applies a reciprocal 18 per cent tariff on sure Indian-origin items beneath an present govt order, with provisions for removals upon profitable conclusion of the settlement.
‘The Prime Minister could, by his means, handle to get awards. However the truth is that the self-declared Vishwaguru has been uncovered and the world, particularly the US, has acquired his measure,’ Ramesh wrote on X.
This comes after US President Donald Trump on Friday (native time) stated he would possibly contemplate intervening within the ongoing battle between Pakistan and Afghanistan however emphasised his good relations with Pakistan’s management.
Chatting with the reporters, Trump stated, ‘I might (intervene). However I get together with Pakistan very, very properly. They’ve an incredible Prime Minister, an incredible Basic. They’ve an incredible chief. Two of the folks whom I actually respect so much. Pakistan is doing terrifically properly.’
Tensions between Kabul and Islamabad have escalated, with either side accusing each other of retaliatory strikes, elevating fears of a wider navy battle within the area.
Whereas Islamabad declared ‘open warfare’ on Kabul after finishing up airstrikes in components of Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia, additional intensifying tensions between the 2 neighbouring international locations. (ANI)
