‘India paying price for Modi’s friendship’: Congress on Trump imposing 25% tariff; claims ‘overseas policy has failed’ | India News

PM Modi with US President Donald Trump

NEW DELHI: The Congress celebration lashed out on the BJP-led central authorities minutes after US president Donald Trump imposed a 25 per cent tariff on India, saying the “country is now bearing the cost of Narendra Modi’s ‘friendship’”.The celebration mentioned Trump imposed tariffs on India regardless of PM Modi campaigning for the US Presdient. The BJP’s rival celebration was referring to the “Howdy, Modi!” occasion held in Texas in September 2019.“Trump slapped a 25% tariff on India, along with a penalty. The country is now bearing the cost of Narendra Modi’s ‘friendship’. Modi campaigned for Trump, hugged him eagerly, posed for photos, and made it trend on social media. In the end, Trump still imposed tariffs on India. India’s foreign policy has completely failed,” the celebration mentioned.Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh quipped at PM Modi over his ‘Howdy Modi’ occasion, saying the gesture “meant little”.“President Trump has slapped a tariff of 25% plus penalty on imports from India. All that taarif between him and Howdy Modi has meant little,” Jairam Ramesh mentioned. The Rajya Sabha member claimed PM Modi thought that “if he kept quiet on the insults that the US President has hurled on India”, the nation “would get special treatment at the hands of President Trump. Clearly that has NOT happened”.“Mr. Modi thought that if he kept quiet on the insults that the US President has hurled on India — the 30 claims of stopping Op Sindoor, the special lunch for the Pakistan Army Chief whose inflammatory remarks provided the immediate backdrop to the brutal Pahalgam terror attacks, and US support for financial packages to Pakistan from the IMF and the World Bank — India would get special treatment at the hands of President Trump. Clearly that has NOT happened,” Jairam Ramesh mentioned.Trump on Wednesday introduced that India should pay 25 per cent tariff from August 1. Trump additionally mentioned that India should pay a further penalty for shopping for vitality and arms from Russia. The 25% tariff price introduced for India is 1% lower than the 26% declared by Trump in his April 2 ‘Liberation Day’ convention. “Remember, while India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little business with them because their Tariffs are far too high, among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country,” Trump mentioned in a put up on Truth Social.“Also, they have always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia, and are Russia’s largest buyer of ENERGY, along with China, at a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE — ALL THINGS NOT GOOD! INDIA WILL THEREFORE BE PAYING A TARIFF OF 25%, PLUS A PENALTY FOR THE ABOVE, STARTING ON AUGUST FIRST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. MAGA!” he mentioned.