New Delhi [India], October 29 (ANI): Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday took a refined dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over US President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions of stopping the navy escalation between India and Pakistan in May, claiming the US chief has made the boast ’54 instances’ throughout a number of international locations.
In a submit on X, the Congress MP shared a video clip of Trump’s newest remarks on the matter, the place the US President claimed to have ‘stopped’ the escalating battle between India and Pakistan and asserted that ‘seven model new lovely planes have been shot down’.
Ramesh additionally took a refined jibe at PM Modi, stating that the Prime Minister ‘doesn’t need to hug’ the US President anymore as a consequence of such claims, whereas calling him Trump’s ‘good buddy in New Delhi’.
‘So far he has stated it 54 instances. He has stated it within the US, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UK. He has stated it mid-flight and on land. Now President Trump has stated it once more, whereas addressing enterprise leaders in Japan final night. No surprise his good buddy in New Delhi doesn’t need to hug him any extra,’ the Congress chief wrote in his submit.
Ramesh’s remarks come hours after Trump, whereas delivering remarks at a dinner with enterprise leaders throughout his go to to Japan, asserted that he had stopped the battle by way of commerce.
‘Loads of the wars that I finished have been due to tariffs, and albeit, I did an ideal service to the world however due to tariffs due to commerce. If you take a look at India and Pakistan, they have been going at it. Seven planes have been shot down. Seven brand-new lovely planes have been shot down they usually have been going at it – at two massive nuclear powers,’ he stated.
Trump additionally known as PM Modi a ‘very good man’ and a ‘excellent man’, whereas claiming that he has known as each the Prime Minister and Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir to cease the battle, or the US wouldn’t do commerce with them.
‘And I stated to Prime Minister Modi – the Prime Minister very good man, an excellent man, and the Field Marshal over in Pakistan. I stated, Look, we’re not going to do any commerce if you are going to be combating,’ he stated.
India has persistently refuted the claims made by the US President, stressing that the choice of ‘cessation of hostilities’ with Pakistan was reached by way of direct diplomatic engagement between the 2 nations, and no third occasion was concerned.
It was India’s long-standing place that any concern with Pakistan, together with these associated to Jammu and Kashmir, is to be resolved bilaterally between the 2 international locations.
India’s Operation Sindoor, initiated on May 7, within the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror assault, which claimed the lives of 26 harmless civilians, showcased a calibrated, tri-services response that embodied precision, professionalism, and objective. Operation Sindoor was conceived as a punitive and focused marketing campaign to dismantle the phobia infrastructure throughout the Line of Control and deeper inside Pakistan. (ANI)