Jairam Ramesh Asks PM To Clarify ‘Donaldbhai’s’ Pak Claim, Trump Reiterates Claim He Brokered Ceasefire With Pakistan

New Delhi : The Congress intensified its demand for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence on the repeated claims by his “friend Donaldbhai” (US President Donald Trump) that his threat of cutting trade with India and Pakistan led to the ceasefire. In a scathing post on X, the Rajya Sabha MP pointed out that through the repeated assertions by Trump – the ninth time in 20 days across 3 countries – the equivalence of India and Pakistan gets reiterated.

India has always insisted on “de-hyphenation”. The reference is to the term “Indo-Pak”, which is how the West saw South Asia in the 90s in an attempt to balance its relationship with both nations. “This is the 9th time in 20 days, across 3 countries and 3 cities. Donaldbhai keeps repeating the same sequence of events of how he got the 4-day India-Pakistan war to stop – US intervention and the use of trade instrument to stop nuclear escalation.

The equivalence of India and Pakistan gets reiterated yet again,” Ramesh tweeted. The government has always maintained that New Delhi and Islamabad “directly negotiated” the ceasefire and the US had no role in it. The Congress leader also referred to US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick’s recent submission before a court that the threat of tariffs helped the US broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

However, the trade court blocked Trump’s tariffs from going into effect. A day later, an appeals court temporarily reinstated the tariffs. Referring to it, Ramesh tweeted, “President Trump’s commerce secretary has made exactly the same claims in his submission to the New York-based Court of International Trade. But Donaldbhai’s friend Narendra Modi continues to ignore his claims with absolute silence. Why doesn’t the PM speak up?”