‘Big Blow’: Chidambaram’s Jib in PM Modi after Trump’s 25% tariff step; Asks what happened to Miga + Maga? , Bharat News

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imports from India, senior Congress leader and former Home Minister P Chidambaram slammed the Center, stating that ‘friendship’ is no alternative to diplomacy and laborious dialogues.A digging on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious pitch, ‘Make India Great Again’ (Miga) to make a so -called ‘mega’ partnership with ‘Make America Great Again’ (Maga) by Trump, Chidambaram questioned, “What happened for Maga + Maga = Mega?”In a post on X, Chidambaram said, “25 percent of tariffs on all Indian exports of the United States, Penalty to buy Russian oil is a major setback for India’s trade with US ‘friendship’.
‘Tareef hi tareef mein tariff lag gaya’
Trump’s 25%tariff declaration has shaken the line in India. The Congress accused Tariff a big ‘blackmail’ accused on the United States, “Praise Hi Praise Mein Tariff Lag went on.”Congress MP Jeram Ramesh questioned India-US friendship and repeated his ‘Operation Sindoor’ Jab. “This is a huge shock for PM Modi and India … Tariff Hi Tarif Meen Tariff Gaya Gaya … Hourdi Modi and Namaste Trump had no benefit … President Trump has said 30 times that he has stopped Operation Sindoor. So what has we got from this (India-US) friendship? This is blackmail by America … This is a time of trouble for us. This will affect our engineering, pharmaceuticals and professional industries. This is a big challenge before us. We used to think that we had two major challenges – Pakistan and China, but America had emerged as the third major trouble, “the Congress leader said while talking to ANI.
America announced 25% Indian tariff
Trump announced Truth on Truth Social that India would pay 25 percent tariff from ‘Plus Penalty’ on August 1 to buy Russian oil and military weapons.A day after the officials made the announcement, the step came that an American trade delegation would visit New Delhi for the sixth round of talks towards bilateral trade deal on 25 August.However, the Center hit back on Trump’s announcement and said “the US President has noted a statement on bilateral trade and the government is studying its implications.”“India and America have been engaged in conversation in the last few months on completion of a fair, balanced and mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement. We are committed to that purpose. The government attracts immense importance to take all the steps to integrate our national interest along with increasing the welfare of our farmers, entrepreneurs and MSMEs. It is said in the United.”