The Congress on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s continued silence over US President Donald Trump’s persistent assertions that he brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during their recent armed conflict.
In a series of posts on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh shared a video clip of President Trump and noted, “This is the 11th time in 21 days that Modi's ‘great friend’ claimed he had a role to play in the ceasefire between the two neighbours.”
“When will the PM speak up?” Ramesh asked.
Earlier, the senior Congress leader had remarked: “This is the 9th time in 20 days, across 3 countries and 3 cities. Donaldbhai keeps repeating the same sequence of events of how he got the 4-Day India-Pakistan war to stop – US intervention and the use of the trade instrument to stop nuclear escalation. The equivalence of India and Pakistan gets reiterated yet again.”
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Ramesh further noted that similar claims were echoed by Trump’s Commerce Secretary in a legal submission before the New York-based Court of International Trade on 23 May.
“But Donaldbhai's friend Mr. Narendra Modi continues to ignore his claims with absolute silence. Why doesn't the PM speak up? Is President Trump also doing what Mr. Modi does all the time and so well (i.e., lying)? Or is he speaking even 50% truth?” Ramesh added.
The Congress party has repeatedly urged the Centre to address Trump’s assertions and formally object to his repeated “hyphenation” of India and Pakistan in matters of conflict and diplomacy.
The government, however, has consistently maintained that all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan are bilateral in nature and will be resolved without third-party intervention.
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