'Trump Scores A Half-Century': Congress Takes Aim At Modi Govt Over Trump’s Trade-War Diplomacy

The Congress party mocked Donald Trump's repeated claim of halting Operation Sindoor using trade tactics. India maintains ceasefire resulted from direct military talks, contradicting Trump's assertion

Jairam Ramesh highlighted Trump's persistence on this claim, suggesting he's nearing a "century" of repeating it.

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Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom

• Congress criticizes Modi for praising Trump's trade claims.
• Trump claims he prevented India-Pakistan conflict using tariffs.
• India states military-level talks resolved the hostilities.

New Delhi: Taking a swipe at the Modi government, the Congress on Friday said US President Donald Trump has "reached the half-century mark" on his claim that he stopped Operation Sindoor using trade and tariffs as his "brahmastra", and added that it won't be long before "he scores a century".

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent all day yesterday talking to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and sending "message after message of praise and admiration to President Trump." "He did not, of course, forget to speak to the man who had unleashed the genocide on Gaza - the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu - also during this time," he said in a post on X.

But President Trump, during his meeting with President Alexander Stubb of Finland on Thursday, "reached the half-century mark on his claim that he stopped Operation Sindoor using trade and tariffs as his brahmastra", Ramesh said.

"In this, President Trump has been consistent, insistent, and persistent. And it won't be long before he scores a century," the Congress leader said.

He also shared a video clip of Trump's remarks claiming he stopped the India-Pakistan conflict.

Last month, in his address to world leaders from the UN podium last week, Trump had repeated his claim that he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan.

India has been consistently maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries. 

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