Congress slams Modi government, says US trade deal has turned into an ordeal

negotiations. The opposition party said that the much-touted trade deal with the United States had instead become an “ordeal” for India.

In a post on X, Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh remarked, “There was a time when we were told that India would host the Quad Summit (USA, Japan, Australia, and India) in November 2025. That is now not happening. There was also a time when we were told that India would be among the first to sign a trade deal with the US. That supposed deal has become an ordeal, while exports to the US decline, leading to the loss of He also shared a video of Trump reiterating his claim that he prevented a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan by leveraging trade.

In the clip, Trump stated, “If it wasn’t for tariffs and trade, I wouldn’t have been able to make the deals. India does a lot of business with us. They were going to have a nuclear war with Pakistan. The prime minister of Pakistan said that if Donald Trump hadn’t got involved, millions would have been dead. Planes were being shot down, it was going to be a bad war. I told both of them, ‘If you don’t work out a deal fast, you won’t do any business with the US.’