Can’t even blame this on the 70 years of Congress, says Mallikarjun Kharge to Modi govt in X post
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly responsible for US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 50% import tariffs on India. “You can’t even blame this foreign policy disaster on the 70 years of Congress,” Kharge jibed in a post on X.
Stressing on India’s national interest being supreme, he said that any country that “penalises” India over its strategic autonomy “doesn’t understand the steel frame India is made of”.
He cited “threats of 7th fleet” during the Bangladesh war of 1971 and sanctions imposed after the nuclear tests, as moments when India navigated the relationship with the US “with self-respect and dignity”.
Now, he said, diplomacy is “disastrously dithering” from India’s side.
He tagged PM Modi and listed out some points to augment his argument.
He pointed towards how PM Modi “kept mum” when Trump claimed to have brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after India’s Operation Sindoor response to the Pahalgam terror attack. “He has claimed at least 30 times and counting,” Kharge’s post said.
The Congress president went all the way back to November 2024, too, to the instance when Trump threatened to impose 100 per cent tariff on BRICS nations. “PM Modi was sitting there, visibly smirking, while Trump declared ‘BRICS dead’!” Kharge wrote.
The Rajya Sabha leader of opposition also criticised Modi for not taking enough measures in the union budget “to soften the blow”, when Trump’s intentions were known already.
He mentioned how ministers have been talking about negotiating a trade deal with the US. “Some of them even camped in Washington for several days,” he said. But a deal has not been made even after “more than six months”.
He said the US President has been “intimidating and coercing” India, “but you (Modi) keep quiet”.
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