Congress Demands Clarity on Trump-India Trade Deal Amid Concerns Over Ceasefire Leverage

With US President Donald Trump announcing the upcoming trade deal with India, Congress said Modi govt must clarify what concessions it has made in the proposed agreement since the US leader has said 16 times that he used the leverage of trade to force a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during the recent conflict. Congress also slammed the govt for its silence on the issue.

AICC Spokesman Jairam Ramesh lamented that the people of India are getting used to the US announcing the decisions of Modi govt, in what was also an allusion to the earlier White House proclamation about the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

“Trump has said it’s a very big deal. Is it so big that Operation Sindoor had to be stopped? What is big about it? Are we opening up our agriculture? Are we opening up our small and medium industry? Are we liberalising imports from America? What are we doing? What is this deal? Why do we have to listen to a ceasefire and trade agreement from Washington? Why isn't the Prime Minister taking the Parliament into confidence? Why isn't the foreign minister speaking on this issue? Why isn't the nation being taken into confidence on the trade deal which President Trump claims is a very big deal?”