New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to suspend and renegotiate the Indo-US trade deal after the US Supreme Court invalidated the tariffs, which were backed by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, imposed by President Donald Trump.
Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, criticized Prime Minister Modi in a post on X, saying: “The PM has been exposed. His betrayal is now exposed. He cannot renegotiate. He will surrender again.”
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Congress Secretary General Jairam Ramesh questioned the “extreme urgency shown by Prime Minister Modi in obtaining the trade agreement announced by US President Donald Trump on February 2.”
He demanded that “Prime Minister Modi say in clear and unequivocal terms that the Interim Agreement Framework cannot be implemented under the current circumstances in light of the US Supreme Court decision.”
“We call on Prime Minister Modi to categorically inform the United States that we will not liberalize imports after the US Supreme Court decision, as there is a rethinking of India’s policy and we will not liberalize imports until clarifications are provided,” he said during a press conference.
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wondered why the government was not waiting for the US Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs. Ignorant foreign policy or unilateral surrender? Why didn’t the Modi government wait for the US Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs before rushing into a trap deal, which extracted huge concessions from India? Karg asked in a post on X.
