Congress chief Mallikrajun Kharge on Thursday swipe on Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid the chaos on the Trump administration, doubled to impose tariffs on 50 percent of goods from India, calling it a “foreign policy disaster”.
He said that 50 percent tariffs of Trump come at a time when Indian diplomacy is “disastrous dything”.
“You cannot even blame the disaster of this foreign policy in 70 years of Congress,” Kharge posed on X, saying that the Prime Minister failed to negotiate a trade deal with the US.
“Now, Trump is scaring us and forcing us – but you keep quiet,” he said.
“India’s exports are about Rs 7.51 lakh crore (2024) for the US amount. A blanket 50 percent tariff means an economic burden of Rs 3.75 lakh crore. Our region, such as MSMES, Agriculture, Dairy Engineering goods, electronic goods, gems and jewelery, drug formulations and biologicals, said,” said.
Rapiding his attack, Kharge argued that the Prime Minister “did nothing” in the Union Budget for major areas including agriculture and MSME, which Trump had been planning for months.
“On November 30, 2024, Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariff on BRICS nations. PM Modi was sitting there, smiling visually, while Trump declared ‘BRICS Dead’. Trump has been planning a” mutual tariff “for months. We all knew that we had not done anything to soften the deal.
He further invited PM Modi to “Mam Keeping Mam” on the claims made by Trump about the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
Kharge said that India navigated its bilateral relations with the US with “self-esteem and dignity” in the past.
“India’s national interest is the highest. Any nation that punishes India for arbitrary policy of arbitrary strategic autonomy, which is inherent in the ideology of non-comprehension, does not understand that the steel frame is made from India. From the threats of the 7th fleet to the restrictions of nuclear tests, we have noticed our relations with self-righteousness, we have noticed our relations with self-righteousness and diagnosis.”
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 6 August and imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on imports from India. Trump cited matters of national security and foreign policy concerns as well as other relevant trade laws, claiming that India’s imports, directly or indirectly, create “unusual and extraordinary threats” to the United States.
Saying the United States move to impose additional tariffs on India on its oil imports from Russia, as “unfair, inappropriate and unfair,”, the Ministry of External Affairs (Mea) announced that New Delhi would take all the tasks necessary to protect their national interests.
In further development, a senior United States official told ANI that there is “no comparison” between hundreds of billions of dollars of dollars of increasing Indian imports of Russian oil and dandruff goods.
In response to a question, the US official told ANI, “There is no comparison between hundreds of billions of dollars of rising Indian imports of Russian oil, and minor American imports of Russian goods, which is less than 1% of the value of Indian imports”. (AI)
